But I think the Japanese custom has it right. If you know someone is off, it's far better not to engage with them. Usually, people will get the message and back off. But when someone can't read the room, or blatantly ignores social cues, it gets dicey.
There can be breaking points at times where you have to tell them directly, to leave you alone. It's just messed up that people can be so clueless or brazen that in the absence of a verbal no, that they think it gives them the okay to continue doing what they're doing.
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But I think the Japanese custom has it right. If you know someone is off, it's far better not to engage with them. Usually, people will get the message and back off. But when someone can't read the room, or blatantly ignores social cues, it gets dicey.
There can be breaking points at times where you have to tell them directly, to leave you alone. It's just messed up that people can be so clueless or brazen that in the absence of a verbal no, that they think it gives them the okay to continue doing what they're doing.