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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24675137, member: 27832&quot;]Yeah, I&#039;m off in a different direction, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, face-to-face (or even voice-to-voice) interactions with people take serious mental and emotional effort. It&#039;s often worth it, but that <i>does</i> serve as a barrier -- given a choice between something that requires socializing and something I can do by myself, I&#039;ll pick solo, sometimes even when it&#039;s not a healthy choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took up collecting when I was a little kid, with encouragement from my grandparents (who DIDN&#039;T count as &quot;stressful&quot;) and my big brother (I was probably more stressful to <i>him</i>, being six years younger). I fell away from the hobby partly as a result of other interests, partly by being separated from those influences.</p><p><br /></p><p>This site right here is <i>entirely</i> responsible for getting and keeping me re-engaged with the hobby. Yeah, finding a guy trying to dump silver into a CoinStar got my attention, and so did watching the spike in PMs in 2011, and chasing &quot;bargains&quot; on eBay -- but if I didn&#039;t have CoinTalk and you CoinTalkers to <i>discuss</i> what I found, to compare notes, to straighten out my misconceptions and help me cement the things I <i>do</i> understand, I wouldn&#039;t have stayed in the hobby more than a year or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I guess my position is a combination of category 1 (I <i>don&#039;t</i> want local criminals to get wind of something I have and decide it might be in my house instead of the SDB), category 2 (I socialize as little as I can possibly manage), and category 3 (I wouldn&#039;t stick with it without <b>you folks in particular</b>).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, um, thanks. Again. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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