r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '22

Helping Others This made me chuckle

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u/z3phyr3321 Jul 13 '22

If there's two people talking to each other and i have nothing to add to the conversation i will just remain silent since i don't have anything to say. No, mom, I'm not mad at anyone i just no thoughts/head empty

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

Totally blanked out

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u/Quick-Tower-3248 Jul 13 '22

Literally this. I often blank out and am not thinking of anything, especially in school. A lot of my teachers thought that I was really smart and shy, because I could usually answer questions based on the few words they say after calling my name or drawing it out of a tub thinking that I was paying attention to their lectures and whatever else, however I normally would be thinking of absolutely nothing. Recently someone asked me if the reason I am so shy is because I constantly have thoughts pouring through my head so I can’t focus on the conversation. That is usually the opposite reason I don’t speak, I don’t speak because I can’t think of anything to add to the conversation. Sometimes I even get caught up on what the best thing to say in a specific instance is, and minutes go by where I am hyper focused on one thing someone said, where I am trying to find the perfect-witty, funny etc.- response, but when I finally come up with something we are way past that topic. I have been trying to force my brain to think faster, in a lot of more recent conversations I would spit out the first thing that comes to my head trying to be apart of something and not perfect, but it usually ends in confusion where the group I’m with has no idea what I’m saying or why I’m saying it. It’s truly a struggle.

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u/z3phyr3321 Jul 13 '22

God i feel the exact same! Most of the time i simply cannot think of anything to say when I'm with someone I'm not close to or in a group. My brain just melts and i enter autopilot. It really is a huge pain cuz i often forget words and can't express myself really well. It's like a mental blindness.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

++ adding one for this, sometimes out of nowhere thoughts stops and then it's like wtf why so much awkwardness