Me: 'I don't feel I belong'.
One or more other people: 'Of course you belong'
Brief period of being made to feel I belong
Make a post.It gets ignored
Meanwhile others are responding to each other.
It reminds me of my last attempt at F2F socialising. I struggled to initiate conversation, but did my best to reply to other people's comments. There was a deafening silence. Meanwhile among everyone else the conversation flowed freely.
I am by default quite asocial, but I do periodically make the attempt to socialise. It's invariably varying degrees of a total '**** up'. It hurts.