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Originally Posted by Stein
Tbh through the whole of this thread it sounds like you made up your mind on your opinion of this program before you signed up or even before you asked on here, and if you really just wanted to do a program for the sake of it and that's what you got, fine. But I'd really question whether this is something that was worth dropping that kind of money on. It doesn't sound to me like you've walked out of there with anything you couldn't have gotten for free from hanging out with decent people and putting some work in for a while. I man I just looked this program up and it says that this shit cost £4000, and all for stuff you could have gotten just by making the effort to find some experienced guys and head out with them regularly. That's fucking madness man.
Also, don't spend time fretting over text game. It's a non issue. If your actual real life game is solid, what you say in a text message won't be that important.
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I appreciate your the notion that I'm only trying to justify it because I've already expended a certain amount of value on it (that it might not actually possess). That would mean I've been an idiot and who would like to admit that, if not to a forum, but to himself? You've a fair point Stein.
Still, I have been bitching about this for years to friends to the point of mutual exhaustion. With the background of Asperger, I've been seeing psychiatrists and relation therapists for over a decade, pushing this problem to the foreground for half of that.
All that got me was just "be yourself, relax, don't worry about it, it will happen eventually". Sometimes I got a bit of advice, but when I applied it, it didn't work. In hindsight however, it's like giving me a puzzlepiece saying it's a horse, but me throwing that piece away since I can't see the horse on it. I just couldn't fit it together and nobody had the time, energy and insight to explain the whole of it to me. I couldn't for the life of me combine "be indifferent" with things like "make sure to lead the conversation in a certain direction", "flirt a little", let alone with a dozen of the other things that make it a flowing and working dynamic between men and women. I never realized how it all works together in unison. I've also been friend-starved and pretty isolated most of my life and no, I might have hung out with decent people, but they never made it click for me. And yes, all of them told me I was mad to do this course as well.
On the other hand, browsing forums like these clashed heavily with my pre-conception to treat women honestly and in the same way I would treat any other person. And the same people who told me I was mad to do the course, also told me that Pick-up (or Game in my case) wouldn't work for someone like me because "I need to be myself".
I *think* (and let me heavily emphasize the word "think" since I really respect that you have a point) that this really is what I needed to finally get the picture. I could have spend another decade putting in the energy trying to make up for my innate inability to understand social dynamics and throw the seperate puzzlepieces at this problem on-at-a-time, but only being more frustrated and isolated because of it and waste in excess of 4000 pounds worth of time, effort and frustration. What others did seemed like magic to me.
What's so ironic about it all, is that after I got home, I finally managed to speak to other guys about this and managed to relate for once in my life. When I talked to the dozen of "just be yourself" friends about all the things I learned, some of them suddenly reacted with "you know, I never thought about it like that, but I recognize myself in that. And (That's what I did when I was dating)". There's this really capable frenchman in my campus flat whose attitude I couldn't understand in the past, but we suddenly have things in common.
Maybe you're right about the product Steiner. I'm not sure; it's possible there's a class of people out there that do really need it, like with my Diagnosis and this really wasn't evidentary for me, but it's also possible that I'm just justifying my choices.
That it is madly stupid, you're definitly right on. Stupid either because you're right and I wasted a fortune, or stupid because I was dense enough to really not figure it out on my own and put myself in that position because of unfortunate life choices. I kinda feel like a chump either way.
Either way, thanks for engaging me Stein. Whatever the case, I'm ready to finally ready to step up to the plate. Doing that, I'm more comfortable with the believe that the Residential was valuable to me, but not without recognizing your view.
I'm going to join this
PUA group thing where I hang out with other "artists" out in reality. One of my trainers told me about it. Hope to run into others out there in the London scene. If I did put in too little energie and time at first, I've now been jumpstarted to definitly do it now.