It's not you, it's them. Thank you, George Costanza! People who have been ostracized are more sensitive to interpersonal nuance, according to research by Kipling Williams (don't have the book in front of me, my T's got it) and will notice and therefore remember stuff other people don't. I'm sorry, but everybody I am "meeting" here sounds pretty good, it's their families that are effed. I have told my mother a story that she says I am making up, yet she validated the salient detail on which the whole episode hinges - so WTH? (there are many such family stories). I have had that happen at work too - then I just repeat the original conversation pretty much word for word from the beginning until the other person hears and remembers their part in it, then I wouldn't have to put up with anymore carp from them, and they realize what a lovely useful and charming person I really am! Give yourself a little credit! But, I also work hard to calm my hyper butt down, and try to just speak when spoken to. That keeps me out of trouble, makes me appear less annoying. Not working here though, is it? Sorry! I better go! But I am very glad you brought this up.