Psychology suggests it's not social anxiety, it's that you've done an accurate calculation on how much social gatherings are asking of you, and the math doesn't work in your favor

Psychology suggests it's not social anxiety, it's that you've done an accurate calculation on how much social gatherings are asking of you, and the math doesn't work in your favor

I was on the way to a friend’s birthday party a few years ago when I realized I’d been mentally mapping my exit since I agreed to go. Not because I was worried about anything. I knew everyone going, liked all of them, and had no real reason to dread it. I just already knew, from years of similar evenings, how this one was going to sit in my body afterward. I went. It was fine. I left a little earlier than everyone else and spent the drive home n…