Can you recall a time when you said something so ridiculously off base or completely inappropriate? Something that triggers a feeling of embarrassment, humility or stupidity? You know, and right after that moment, for at least a split second, you didn't hear anything else other than your own voice shouting "What the hell were you thinking? Why would you say something like that!" You may have acknowledged the poor merit of your comment, laughed uncontrollably, or excused yourself from the group pending the ears your remark has tainted.
You may have even heard a friend, acquaintance or family member blurt out their demise and have felt uncomfortable for them..?
There are those, and may be I am talking about you right here and now, that just have the tremendous misfortune of never hearing that little voice. Nothing echos through their hollow heads asking where the rock is that they can go hide under. You must know this person - maybe a distant cousin, "friend" of a friend, fellow church goer - surely a co-worker - every office has at least one socially awkward person. This is the person you want to feel bad for and you want to let them know what was "off" or inappropriate, but you can't because they just won't get it, or they will get suspicious of you for even telling them.
I have thought a person who is unaware of this social awkwardness and inappropriate behavior or commenting should be pitied... so many will talk behind their back. But I am beginning to think we who realize and are aware are in fact the ones who have the handicap. The socially awkward do not know.... there is no feeling of remorse, wrong doing, poor humor - they just live in their own ignorance and perhaps bliss of putting what ever they want out there and never seeking that rock to crawl under.
Aware or unaware - which is the way to be?
Can you become unaware if you all ready are in the know?
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