Yeah I used to be one of those that thought you needed it to learn to be social. Then I think about how I went to public school for all that time and my social skills are garbage. Family talk about how different I was as a little kid before school and how much better I am now having been out of school for 20 years. I wasn't bullied or anything, but something about the school environment just made me uncomfortable I guess.
I've also got a homeschooled teen boy in the family I'm close with. We really overlap in interests and just how we think about things. His social skills having never been to school are better than mine, and on another level to how I was at that age.
So needing to go to school for social skills are BS to me.
Yeah I used to be one of those that thought you needed it to learn to be social. Then I think about how I went to public school for all that time and my social skills are garbage. Family talk about how different I was as a little kid before school and how much better I am now having been out of school for 20 years. I wasn't bullied or anything, but something about the school environment just made me uncomfortable I guess.
I've also got a homeschooled teen boy in the family I'm close with. We really overlap in interests and just how we think about things. His social skills having never been to school are better than mine, and on another level to how I was at that age.
So needing to go to school for social skills are BS to me.