I am always concerned that I am making people uncomfortable because I am so awkward, but I have a very close friend who is often with me in social situations and I talk to him when we are alone and I ask him if I was too awkward, if I made people uncomfortable, and by now he is sick of me asking that, but he always tells me that I am not making anyone uncomfortable. He says I'm not really that awkward, I just think I am. He says he just wishes I could believe that.
He says I am projecting my own discomfort onto others, he says I am not making anyone uncomfortable because nobody is paying that much attention to me. With SA, we think all eyes are on us all the time and that we have such a negative impact on those around us, when maybe it's not true at all. Maybe nobody notices. I mean they notice we're shy or we're quiet, but maybe they don't think anything else about it.
