I got laid off due to circumstances related to the COVID pandemic, and I didn’t work for a long while. Since then, I’ve gotten a new job, made some new friends, but I couldn’t help but feel my social skills never really got back to where they were before. I am much more prone to just having nothing to say in response than I feel I ever have been (excluding awkward teenage years, of course). I find myself just not wanting to speak at all sometimes.
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Believe me, most of us feel this way. I’m quite extroverted, and still feel awkward. Embrace it, we’re all in the same boat
I feel the same, sometimes talking feels so tiring now. It never used to. I used to be quite the conversationalist, Covid, and being a stay at home mom changed all that. I don’t talk to anyone now besides the baristas at Starbucks.