Do you ever find that you frequently mishear people?
This happens to me several times a day, and I always absolutely humiliate myself because of it. What keeps happening is that someone will be talking to me, but I’m so preoccupied with not looking weird that I will not hear what they’re saying. So what I end up doing, because I am so afraid to just ask them “what” and seem rude, is just saying “yeah” and hoping that it applies to what they just said.
The problem is, I’ve responded “yeah” to questions that don’t have yes/no responses several times now, and I look like an absolute freak. They never end up knowing how to respond to me afterwards, and they just kind of drift away with what seems like a subtle look of disdain.
I get it though, this is a weird thing of me to do. All because I’m too afraid to just ask someone to repeat what they said, like I think they’re about to scream at me or something. And as usual, I look at everyone else talking to each other and wonder how they’re able to effortlessly hear every single word and form a calm response.