Question

Has it ever happened to you that you have started conversation with one group and they pretended that they just can’t hear you?

Answer 1

Yes, I once approached a group of peers to join their conversation, only for them to completely ignore my presence and pretend I wasn't even speaking. It was a deeply humiliating experience that immediately made me feel invisible, awkward, and profoundly rejected as they purposefully kept their eyes fixed on each other. That painful moment of deliberate silence taught me how devastating it feels to be excluded, leaving me with a lingering sense of self-doubt and anxiety about approaching groups in the future.