[mleonhard]

Second. I was homeschooled K-12 and missed a lot of opportunities to learn social skills. Learning these skills later in life is very very very hard. Now, I would pay a lot of money for live role-playing classes to help me develop the missing mental habits, but I have not found such classes offered anywhere.

[omginternets]

Do you have examples that might illustrate what it means, concretely, to have missed opportunities to learn social skills? I understand why and how it can happen, but it's all a bit abstract. I have a hard time imagining a concrete situation in which that handicap would manifest.