>>I mean ok..... but whose problem is it really that you felt
>>that way?
>
>If it's a job interview, your boss, a prospective date, or a
>networking opportunity and you come off like a *insert
>pejorative here* then it is your problem that they thought
>like that. No one but you knows all of the good thoughts that
>are in your head, it's up to you to express them.

I'm a grownup with responsibilities. I'm just apt to avoid mundane social interactions. Whatever the consequences are of that, I'm willing to live with them. I don't feel unloved, unappreciated, etc.. I don't have any disdain for chatty people. It's just not me.