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Nambo
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06 Dec 2013, 4:31 pm

Apart from teachers at school, the only intercourse I had with my parents involved pain or humiliation, most of the time they kept me alone in my room.
Hence I must have learnt how to behave from the adults I saw on the TV before about %:30 when I would have to go to bed.

I loved the Samantha from "Bewitched", she was the Mother I wanted.
"Dad" was Adam West as Batman.
My favourite though was Lost in Space, whilst I never liked the Smith character, I was exposed to a lot of his influence and do hope It didn't influence me.



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07 Dec 2013, 5:57 pm

CyclopsSummers wrote:
Somewhat to my shame, during a period of minimal social interaction spanning from about 16 to 21, I attempted to keep up on social behaviour by watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Of course, I had already had a significant development of my social skills in my childhood and teenage years, through interaction with relatives and age peers. But what a young adult was supposed to do when faced with another human being, was not entirely clear to me. So, I watched Buffy (and some other shows).

Just like superliminary and Aardvark, it did not yield all that many good results.


That's so interesting, and embarrassing. I had the same. Luckily I was in the process of heading to university so picked Willow as a model. It worked reasonably well.

There should be some sort of debriefing session at the end of a tv show.



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04 Sep 2014, 12:39 am

As embarrassing as it sounds, I don't think I learned anything about social interaction from watching television. I might have picked up some things subconsciously, but in my opinion, I subconsciously tuned out anything about proper behavior (or even improper behavior) because I thought "It's just a cartoon. It's not real."