Nov 13th: Crippled... by joy.

Oh, Karl, I feel that too! My internal monologue often goes, "Oh, a person did a social thing. Do I respond? How do I respond? What if I respond too much? Will the person not want to social with me again? What do other people do in this social situation? Why is this social situation even an option? How did this behavior arise? What other social situations have fallen away with the times?"

and then the person offers their cookies to someone else instead.