The socially awkward Mr Burry, a one-eyed fund manager with Asperger's syndrome, avoided contact with people if he could help it.
Unless you really know what you're doing, anything other than friendly conversation and neutral rapport when you are first introduced to someone through a social circle will brand as socially awkward.
He was a bad speaker, he was socially awkward, and was a hodgepodge of anxiety-based psychological disorders that, at the time, were not in the DSMV.
If you're a socially awkward, glass-half-empty sort of person, take note: New research suggests having a "distressed" personality may jeopardize your health.