Does this happen to you?
When you’re in a group setting and at the end of whatever they were talking about somebody says something like “Well, I think everyone spoke up, so moving on…”
Even though you were clearly there and didn’t say anything? I kinda feel like they do this because they KNOW I didn’t say anything. And I’m afraid that everyone else in the group is also gonna think of me, like “That’s not right, that person hasn’t said one word this whole time”.
First exanple was at a work meeting that I stayed quiet the whole time ( trying to find the courage to speak up, overthinking about everything I wanted to say, overthinking about what everyone else thought of me being there in dead silence…) This also happened at a book club that I was trying to participate in, in college group discussion (long time ago) etc.
Does anyone experience this a lot too?