I swear I can start a conversation fine. Hey, how’s it going? easy peasy. But once the other person replies Good my brain just blanks. Suddenly it feels like we’re both waiting for someone else to write the script.
I see other people who can smoothly slide into talking about their weekend or a show they watched. To me it feels unnatural. I’ll be just there stuck on 'uh nice weather today' followed with a sheepish smile and wishing the ground would swallow me up.