You may feel like a victim if everyone else is laughing and you don't know why they are antisocialOne evening, I went to a nightclub in Italy with a group of twenty-somethings, pretending to follow their intricate conversations with smiles and nods. As we walk through the crowd, some randos shout “que bella pussy,” which one person told me was a compliment, another group of people started laughing, and others were horrified. Naturally I felt like crawling into a little hole because I didn't even have enough vocabulary to understand the detailed meaning of the word. Thanks to Word Reference, I was able to get this little insight when I got home. I still didn't know how to feel.4. You realize you're antisocial and learn to shut things out. Your brain has to work at a level it's not used to, and when things get too complicated, you realize you're building a safety mechanism that allows you to have selective hearing. You also start to avoid conversations because of the fatigue it causes you, but don't fuel this! It will be harder at first to get your points across or understand intricate dialogue, but don't frame yourself as that big loser who has no personality because you have one, and there are ways to demonstrate that even without language. Bringing me to the next one