I have posted multiple times about my work friends. In particular it is these two girls. They are nice to me and often treat me like a friend, however, they seem to demonstrate that they find me unintelligent and awkward. In other words, they have no respect for me. I have a tendency to say things that are just totally inncacurate, either because of social anxiety or slow processing speed, and every time this happens, they seem to really draw attention to it. I get the feeling that one I have one if my "blunders" in front of one of them, she will text the other about it.

I don't like playing the role of the "village idiot". In fact, I hate it. If I am going to be part of a group, I want to be someone who is seem as competent and desirable. But since they are nice to me and maybe even consider me a friend, I feel like I can't just tell them off. How does someone deal with this?