I really struggle when it comes to naive adults, sheltered people, do you know what I mean? My closest friends aren't sheltered at all, they all have this active lifestyle where they meet and exchange ideas and work with people, but I keep running into sheltered people recently since moving back to my home province.
We can put religious fundamentalists in this category, they are very sheltered. it's very difficult for me to speak with them. Especially those with an apocalyptic 'end times' attitude.
Another sheltered type are agoraphobes. Everything for them is "sooooo dangerous!!!" and they keep talking about an 'article' or 'news story' that they saw about traffickers or whatever.
A lot of upper-middle class people can be sheltered as well, especially those who have thrown themselves at some sort of 'exotic spirituality' or those who just live to go the spa, the 'garden', and get all their 'healing' done. I've run into those types too.
Point is, I find all these folks and more to be way too sheltered, but I shouldn't be so disrespectful and maybe give them a chance.
How can I do this? How can I be a better communicator with them?
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