Dysfunctional?

Today all you hear about is how dysfunctional people are. This label has spread to include anyone that differs from the traditional “norm.” You’re divorced? Dysfunctional. Your parents are divorced? You speak your mind and your opinion differs from mine? You quit high school? You have an OPEN MIND? Dysfunctional. You were pregnant out of wedlock?!? Or worse you married twice and you have children by more than one FATHER!?!?! DYSFUNCTIONAL!!

This brings me to the real point of this post…”functional” people...Functional people scare me. Am I alone in this? They scare me. Seriously. I get insanely uncomfortable around them…I just KNOW I’m going to do SOMETHING that will scream “I’M NOT LIKE YOU! I’M DYSFUNCTIONAL!!!” in a shrill (read -insane) voice.

They always want to make conversation. Normal conversation. I'm talking about questions that they expect stock answers to. My problem is that when asked a direct question, I automatically answer. I answer truthfully. I'm not a liar, sugar-coating counts. I'm met with silence sometimes. Eventually it will stall because I get tense and have no idea how to respond. I don't understand asking a question that I don't want answered truthfully. I don't know how to answer one any other way.

Is this just me?