

Maybe that was a bad example. Thanks, that is reassuring. However, I feel like I get better and flipping the switch and doing smalltalk / pretending to be social, but worse at actually being social. I fear I’ll end up as a cranky old man yelling at the kids, and I’m not even 30.
I think I’ve seen both. The US is definitely more on the peach side, and northern Europe is definitely more coconut. But I feel like some regions just have a… standard? norm? of more or less close relationships.