This is really affecting me. I recently moved to Europe and don't speak the local language yet, which is a whole different beast, but I would love to go places and travel around (usually solo), but I feel so awful assuming people speak English or making them deal with me not speaking their language.
I haven't done any of the things I want to do, because every time I travel (whether that's a major city like Paris and Milan or, even worse, a smaller town), I just get too anxious to walk into stores and restaurants… so I just self-checkout some chips at the supermarket and eat it at a bus stop or something.
Anyway. How do you (or should I) deal with this? Other than therapy which is already in the works