u/Queasy-Signature-457

For a good majority of my adulthood (I’m 22) I’ve had a really hard time talking to people, I feel like when people’s eyes are on me in conversation I don’t know how to operate, I’m always in my head about what I’m gonna say next and it ends up making the words come out scrambled or i begin to blank out, its kind of hard to describe the feeling really, the best way i can put it is that I’m afraid of giving the wrong impression, I don’t want to sound dumb to people, I have to be perfect and be articulate and witty and funny etc….and that binding that I’ve put on myself tends to backfire and sabotage any and all social efforts I make 🙂‍↕️