Socially Awkward Rule

stop the train and run for your life, don't let them get to you
- Remember, if they bite you, you only have a minute to kill yourself.
  
  I was bitten this morning and I feel fi----nally half way through the week am I right? Any plans this weekend?

Would you rather murder a stranger, or be forced to interact with them for 5 seconds?
- Well murder risks further interaction with cops, the legal system, lawyers... Can I just stare at the stranger for 5 seconds? I could probably manage a smile.
  Wait, you're a stranger! Look ma I did it!
- I rather tie my self up and pick a spot than get stuck interacting with a stranger for 5 seconds.

So how long have you been in the trolley stopping business?

- Haha what is this gif from?
  
  Bocchi the Rock

I could lay down on the tracks, right?
- Yes, but then you'd be joining a group activity.

Get in front of the train so you don't have to make a decision
- Unfortunately, that is also a decision.
- The only valid option.
  I second this..

As someone who worked in a gas station for 24 years..
sigh
I’d do it. I’d suck it up. I’d make some damn good friends along the way and then I’d never maintain those friendships and feel guilty for the rest of rest of my life. “Just call him, dipshit. He’s going through a divorce! Just go fishing! Pleaaassse! Ok, here goes. Tomorrow.”
Always tomorrow.
- Did you know that a single molecule of water has more hydrogen atoms than there are stars
  
  :p yoooooou! What are you doing here?
- Ah, this comment makes much more sense now.

turn the lever and run like hell
- That ... could work.

This is so scary, perfect timing for spooky season. You gotta keep up that outer image...

This one seems especially unsolvable...

I could do a few small talks before I'm socially exhausted, so maybe if i pull the lever about halfway through?
- Maybe just run over their mouth parts

But maybe you wont stop it in time for some of them, so then the families of those few in the front that died will forever hate you for not stopping it slightly sooner.
- Does that mean that said families will never want to talk with me?
  
  If you are lucky yes, if not they come over every sunday to throw eggs at your house. (Technically still not talking to you so hey...)

See, this is where you need a super hero persona; all masked super heroes are confirmed socially awkward!

If I pull the lever hard enough, will the trolley reverse? If so - can I jump on it to avoid the conversation?

The fact that it's Bocchi is amazing

Don't worry guys Nijika aka Dorito will come and save the day

not worth it

That's not an option. Sorry guys!

"So, as I was saying officer, as I am not a trained trolley operator I didn't knew the lever was a mechanism for it to do thinks, so I watched in horror as it approached the... (tries hard to hide smile)"

You can stop it any time you like
But you can never leave

Run on the track while holding the lever
The train will be stopped, but the person who pulled the lever wouldnt be alive to be thanked

I like to think I'm an introverts extravert. Most of my friends are introverts and they seem to like having me around, especially in busy social settings since I can act as a barrier to help manage the mayhem. I will gladly offer my services to the introvert who pulls the lever.

Fuck it [flips switch]

Ah, so this is the post where that commenter got lost.

has it become popular to be a complete social inept? i've never seen so many kids that can't handle basic human interaction as i have in the last 5 years. WTF?
- Why are you seeing so many kids for the last 5 years? Do you have a representative sample size?
  I feel like getting a feel for how people in society actually act from memes is a dangerous game. I think the point of them is to push passed hyperbole so that people laugh at it, and then share it with friends.
  Also, inept isn't a noun.
  
  If we can verb nouns, we can noun adjectives!
- The terminally online are 90% of Lemmy's content machine.
  I get curated stuff for free so I'm happy those people exist but yeah don't take their worldview as the norm.
  
  Nah, most of these nerds are just unhealthy online
- No, it's just over sampling on the Internet.
- I think that people are more willing to talk about it now, because mental illness is less stigmatized than it used to be.

- I would guess that they are most likely well aware of this.
- My autism isn't going away. Professional help resulted in the advice of: "Take time off from people when your social batteries are depleted, because otherwise you burn out and fall into a depression (that was the constant circle I was in until I got my diagnosis and started to accept what I can and can't do)."
  There is no solution that doesn't deplete my social batteries, while neurotypical people load their batteries when being in contact with other people mine do not and never will. I still see friends and have conversations with a lot of people, I need that I am not a hermit but carefully planned and spread out and if possible online and not in person because that makes it less straining.
  I would have to pull the lever late to save only the last 10 people, sorry for the others. /s
- I already knew I'm a mental freak, but thanks for affirming it!
- People say sarcasm doesn't translate on the internet, but hyperbole is definitely a close second.

I utterly loathe people who are like this.
- What a strange thing to hate. It makes you angry when people don't want to do small talk?
  
  See the post below since your alt? account said the same thing.
- What a strange thing to hate. It makes you angry when people struggle with social anxiety?
  
  Sometimes, yeah.
  Or, specifically, I can't stand the people who constantly post about how they have social anxiety in a public place for attention (which seems like the opposite of what they would want) and have this whole persona of a "smol widdle sad bean 8c I'd wather wet people die den tawk to dem".
  I've had to deal with a lot of toxic, manipulative people who use their identity of having "social anxiety" as a way to manipulate and control others. "I am so weak and tired from talking and anxious, we should go back to the hotel right now and if we don't I'm going to throw a fit!" Doesn't matter if it's the funeral for their partner's dad and said partner hasn't seen their family in years because they live far away and it's really important for them to get closure, naw, the anxiety is more important so we gotta leave NOW.
  So yeah, I don't like some socially anxious people. And I hate people who have attitudes like this comic, because for some people, it's not hyperbole, they are that selfish and self centered.
- I don’t understand, do you mean talking with people who want to chill by themselves or running a trolly over people?
  
  The people who make social anxiety their whole identity. See the larger comment if you want more detail.