More normal, but we get to skip a lot of the formalities, given that I've been inside your head. There's familiarity between us now.
It's never very fun, as a young child or a grown up, to be forced into social situations. Small talk seems like a chore after a while.
It does. You learn how people react and speak, and more importantly, you learn how you as a person react to things. It seems to me that the anger was clouding you, but you lack some social understandings between people so this is good exercise for both.