Miguel, what’s really bad is when you zone out of conversations and YOU’RE the one talking! haha!
I mentally lapse out of the topic and I’m like “Wait… what?” after meandering. I’m good at recognizing it when it happens now, so I’m quicker to get back on target, especially when I’m speaking professionally.
But when I was much younger… WHEW! I had a lot of social anxiety because conversations are way too topic-to-topic jumping–topics, of course, set by the group flow, not me. So I hated youthful, rapidly morphing conversations in social settings–everyone being cool and trendy. I couldn’t keep up. Ugh.
If you can imagine the comedy cliche of a well-oiled dance-troupe where one person is not practiced. When the entire troupe goes left, the one ding-dong goes right. When the troupe twirls, then skips and shifts backwards, the ding-a-ling twirls and spins and runs to get back in line… which has already moved the other way. HAHA
That was me, because of the zoning. 