24.163.244.153 Comments Dear David, Thanks for writing me about your difficulties with interpersonal communication. You're not alone. Many people have similar challenges with eye contact and conversational skills.
Eye contact is extremely important to communication.
Looking at people and meeting their eyes are the first steps toward striking up friendships and making positive impressions. When people fail to look at us, we become suspicious. Honesty and the ability to look someone in the eye are very closely related. Eye contact also determines turn-taking in a conversation. When listening to others, we look more than the person who is talking.