If a person is stuck on a deserted island for 11 years would their social skills ultimately improve?

At first your social interactions would be awkward. Man, being a social animal, creates society wherever he finds it. A person alone for any appreciable length of time would have pets. The interaction with pets is different than with people. So, the person's action, when once again exposed to people, would be reticence since he would have lost a measure of his social facility. He would find it extremely difficult to "read" people and anticipate their responses. Overtime, he would regain this ability, but he would most likely never feel comfortable around many people. He would be friendly and have many pets, but only a few people to call friends. This is sometimes called the "Tarzan Effect."

my father is a bit of a hermit, currently living in the middle of the desert, meeting him rather recently for the first time, i think if a person were to live by themselves on an island for 11 years they would first become really attuned to their surroundings, while understanding a lot more about patterns of clouds, wind and rain, ect. along with a great base of experience with crabs and bannanas lol, this new eye for detail would indeed make them a little more perceptive, of corse in 11 years the world can change rather dramatically, so there would be a massive shock to the system if they had spent any time pondering on their earlier life. honestly though the answer is completely circumstatial, it is entirely reliant on the things you left behind, and the attitudes you have gained before such a massive chapter.

Interesting.

Being without social interaction for 11 years, you will surely forget all your artificial social fears. And when you come back, you will probably be 'reprogrammed' since you have been accoustomed to living on a deserted island for so long.

But on the otherhand, when you come back I think it will be a matter of being disassosiated from society. You lack the experience and you lack the emotional responses that social interaction would normally produce in you.

So I think initially you could start over fresh, but gradually you will regain your place in society.

Ugh, now that I wrote all that I don't think I answered your specific question. -_-

My social and most likely also mental skills would decline rather sharply. The mind is very much a thing of habit.

I'd bet my conversational skills would drop. If you don't talk for 11 years (except for maybe yourself and your imaginary friends), you're going to most likely get used to not talking.

wow, good question. I don't think you'd necessarily be crazy when you returned to society, but you certainly wouldn't be more social. I think you would just want to be by yourself most of the time, since that is what you've gotten so accustomed to.

there are some very resilient folks on this earth. some of them will in fact show no change in 11 years on that island.

To return to civilization as self-destructive as it is now.

I am sure I would go back to the island. <}:-{(

A break from the mindlessness might just help.

Love and blessings Don

I'd be a mindless barbarian looken to get laid and a cheeseburger.

it prob depends if that person felt it was inevitable theyd be alone or not.