Well if your anything like me, i'll be at a gathering sitting down around a table with a group of people, and everyone is usually over-the-top and cheery and they cope fine, as for me i can be enthusiastic but not for the whole time, and so these people will have an answer or a comment for every single subject and i'm just thinking how is this possible that a single person can just sit there and ramble out interesting banter from thin-air because i'll sit there quiet until i can think of a sentence that is coherent and makes sense ...but it has to be on a subject i'm aware or am educated of, if it isnt i'll ask a question but even asking a question feels like i'm bringing down the mood ...even though i think i'm being enthusiastic, and i think its because the people i'm sitting with are only really wired to interact with the people they normally or routinely have conversations with ...so if i speak up people are in shock and its unusual for them ..
this is my family i'm speaking of here, cousins, aunties, friends of siblings that come around for birthdays and festive days ...
i find loud mouth arrogant types are the hardest to be around in general, not sarcastic but the really domineering in your face types, and i seem to have plenty of those around me ...