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Regression Social Skills?

KuriouslyAutistic44

Hello beautiful people! So I am curious what people have experience with regression in social skills. I feel like since my burnout, social skills have been in the workplace is "unfiltered" and I can not adapt to the normal social politeness or so -call professionalism as before. I have also realized that socializing with others is painful especially in groups or even some one on ones. Talking and communicating and knowing what to say or do...is challenging for me. Especially when there is an "unspoken expectation" to be 'polite, nice, filtered, or professional". I have been "using the professional mask in the workplace or to be socially acceptable and likeable and now that is out the window.  I am curious if anyone has experienced regression in socializing or maybe this is just what UNMASKING does....lol

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  • I relate to this so much lol. I used to be pretty good at socialising in the past. I wouldn’t get stressed about knowing what to say I was able to figure out social norms quite intuitively and felt no awkwardness when speaking to others. However, over the years this skill has regressed significantly. I am way less outgoing and confident when speaking to others. It sucks so much it takes so much energy and causes me so much anxiety when socialing with people not in my immediate bubble. I really want to become better at socialising again as these difficulties prevent my personality coming through when I’m meeting new people which sucks.

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  • I relate to this so much lol. I used to be pretty good at socialising in the past. I wouldn’t get stressed about knowing what to say I was able to figure out social norms quite intuitively and felt no awkwardness when speaking to others. However, over the years this skill has regressed significantly. I am way less outgoing and confident when speaking to others. It sucks so much it takes so much energy and causes me so much anxiety when socialing with people not in my immediate bubble. I really want to become better at socialising again as these difficulties prevent my personality coming through when I’m meeting new people which sucks.

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