So growing up when I wasn't at home where I was comfortable with people, I was pretty quiet and reserved. Timo will undoubtedly not believe me, but it's true. My parents always thought my teachers were joking when they said I didn't talk much in class. But I always had the answer
See, I am an extremely logical thinker. And a lot of kids aren't so I didn't really fit in because I acted, well, like Spock a lot around them. I spoke very neutrally and would cite rules and whatnot. So I didn't really have a lot of friends. And the friends I had I mostly wasn't that close with.
Some of the kids used to kind of pick on me a little, which I really didn't care about. It was never physical and it was a waste of my energy to react, and frankly a waste of theirs for trying to goad me. It never worked.
And then one day (back in like 200 someone made some comment about how I was like a robot or something, and someone else said "yeah, like Spock." Which I guess they meant as an insult? I wasn't really overly familiar with the show back then. But then the next year Star Trek came out, and I went and saw it and, well, being called Spock was a fucking honor
It wasnt until after I dropped out of college that I kind of broke out of my shell, and that was entirely due to a manager at my store who saw how reserved I was so he started to "bust my chops" I believe was the phrase, but not in a bad way? He also used to call me Spock, but he did it jokingly, not meant as an insult
I still get uncomfortable in unknown situations because human social norms still elude me, but I have made huge strides. I never would have gone to larp had I not worked with him, and that means I wouldn't be on dwrp either, most likely.
But yeah, if you use metaphors around me there's a good chance I won't understand them. And sarcasm unless I know you're a sarcastic shit. I will almost always assume you're being literal unless it's super clear that you are not
why do I keep dropping new guys right into games