Zen wrote:
I don't know how to externalize the person that I am internally. I come across as an idiot because I can't put my thoughts into words properly and often can't think of even simple words when I try to say something. People make assumptions about me which are completely incorrect. (For example, people always think I'm religious when I'm actually anything but.) And even when I think I've been sharing with people, they will then tell me that they don't really know me.
It's quite frustrating sometimes.
I know exactly what you mean. Though I find it's not that I can't communicate thoughts when I am around people, It's that I can't have the same thoughts. Like somehow my IQ dropped like 50 points all of a sudden.
Yeah, people think I'm religious too, when I am not. Where I live that's a good thing. Sometimes I make a damn fool of myself when talking about things I care about because usually no one else does or the setting isn't right. I'm a perpetual party pooper.
I picked up the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" which has really helped alot, though I feel like I am getting my responses out of a book rather than being really genuine. I think people can pick up on that.