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I'm not here making some value statement about the importance of eye contact or whatever, for the record. do what u want, lots of people don't like direct eye contact, it could well be enought to look generally at people's faces most of the time, and it's a pretty intricate social tool, I'd argue. I'm not qualified to give complicated eye contact takes

Thoughts?

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[–] VoidCrow 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eye contact kinda hurts (not physically but dunno how to describe) it's like if everyone had laser vision

[–] Blackfeathr 4 points 1 year ago

To me it's like looking at the sun. You can for a little while but everything is screaming that this is bad for you and to stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as if they're looking into your very soul