It Is As If I Am Not Here?

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I seem to have always had this. It is as if what I add to a conversation has never been said. It is as if I am not here?

I have this in real life and I even have it in here. Why does this happen? I do not know. It could be that I speak or type on a different wavelength to everyone else?

It does not always happen, but I do notice that when popular people say things almost everyone talks back to them, but if I say something they just move on to some other topic... Not even acknowledging that I have said what I have said. Yet they get offended if I then walk off, but why? If what I say does not mean anything to them then it is pointless me being there! Being there wastes their time and wastes my time as well.

I am wondering if there is some sort of majic formula to speech so when I talk I am heard?

I hear you, MG. And I feel the exact same way a lot of the time, both here and in real life.

It is strange isn't it. What I find even stranger is when I have tried a few times in a group conversation to communicate and each time the same happens, I get fed up and go to leave and they are all upset with me. Why be upset because I am not able to say things that they want to hear?

It must have a name! We can name it? What shall we call it?

I've observed the phenomena. It was a strange phenomena.
For me it's very apparent, at the same time I get to overcome it in ways I can't exactly understand myself.

So far, it's a form of...
... Lack of timing? (Milliseconds real time timing, give-and-take/turn-taking and overlapped convo 'queue' though, queue isn't the right word for it)

Lack of.. of.. 'Toning'? (Not enough loudness, not enough assertiveness, not enough 'extraversion', not enough 'priority' or at least whatever cues putting a person into spotlight)

Lack of synchronization?? (It may or may not explain the previous two, may or may not involved language skills)

Lack of... Uhh, whatever hierarchy (but this is more about passive odds of being passed the mic on and standing out than an actual skill of psych play and social skill)

?????
I would've like to know what it was called.

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That happens to me most of the time. I call it social invisibility, visible enough that people don’t run into me or anything, but otherwise like I don’t exist. If there is more than one other person present, probably about ninety-five percent of the time I might get a perfunctory greeting, and then the other people take over and basically ignore me if I try to say anything. People who are close friends but barely know me will even tell each other very personal things when I’m right next to them. I compare myself to a fake potted plant - maybe I’m noticed at first, and no one walks into me or tries to sit on me or anything, but otherwise ignored, not even getting any watering like a real plant.

Ooh. I have learned lots of things because people say things in front of me assuming I am thick! Haha.

Dear dragons and demons,
You are speaking for me.
You said it very well.
Sigh.

Happens to me all the time, except I rarely do those kinds of social interactions.

People not only don't hear me, they also don't see me. I was once at a party, completely lost and left out. But I was there with a now XH and he was also not paying attention to me. So I went to a quiet room on the house, looking around and found a book and was reading quietly.

Someone came to the door of the room, looked straight at me, and said, "There is no one here so I am going to turn out the light." And she turned out the light and left. This only took about 3 seconds. I was stunned.

At that point, I sighed and walked home.

MG, I would like to clarify one thing: You are a popular person here.
I sometimes just have nothing to say on the topic.

My whole life I never really been here. I've always been in my own world day-dreaming
I think you mean something else thou MG. I think it may be due to popularity & others being self-centered. Walking off is seen as a sign of disrespect for the speakers. Others don't want to hear you but your all expected to feign an interest & likeness for the others who do speak sense they are higher up on the totem-pole.

This is all so true.