> ... on page 25 i indicated that it was "fairly obvious" that my bad social experiences in school that followed my skipping 6th grade were what caused me to have such great difficulty in making advances to girls. however, the reason may not be so simple. (one can tell what one's feelings are, but sometimes it is difficult to tell what are the ultimate causes of those feelings.) in particular, i wonder about this fact: so far as i know, my brother has had no more sexual contact with women than i have. is this pure coincidence? one would be inclined to look for some common cause for his celibacy and mine. if there is such a common cause, it is not bad social experiences in school or cutting insults from parents, since my brother never underwent these experiences to any great extent if at all. never having discussed this question with my brother, the best an do to answer it is this: there may be such a common cause, but it is not strong enough to be the determining factor -ifl and by itself. other factors were necessary, but these /\0ther factors in my case were not the same as in my brother's case. i will not attempt to determine what the other factors were in my brother's case ... however, i will explain what i think may be the common causes that hindered both my brother and me from getting girlfriends. for one thing, as a result no doubt of heredity and early family environment (probably mostly the latter), we both grew up with personalities and attitudes that predisposed us to be social outsiders. we both have little respect for most of the human race and areinterested in friendship only with selected individuals. we both have no interest in the values, entertainments, conventions, and social rituals of most of the major social groupings. this by itself would tend to limit our social lives, and therefore limit our opportunities to meet girls ...
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