I don’t think I’m dumb, but I just don’t think much. My mind is almost always empty and thoughtless unless I make an effort to think, but I have no social anxiety. I hear about people constantly having thoughts running through their head but I just can’t understand how you could have so many things to think about. People say to just say what comes to mind but there’s nothing, when someone says something to me it takes me way too long to figure out what I should say, so I always end up saying something dumb or just “yeah” and then realize after the interaction ends how dumb I looked and feel bad about it.
It feels impossible to get out of this rut I’ve made for myself by not socializing when I was younger, and nobody else seems to know a way out either. Does anyone know some sort of exercise I could do on my own to help?