Anyone else feel so awkward at (family) get togethers that you just blurt something out?

[Peregrine Took]

I usually just sit quietly for a long time but (esp after a few drinks) I just say something and everyone looks at me like I'm insane.

Nothing offensive but I think, sometimes, its not the right time to say that particular thing...but it can definitely gets the conversation rolling if into uncharted territory.

[Warpy]

1. Naw, they already knew I was insane.

Anything that came out of my mouth just confirmed it.

[Hoyt]

2. I do that all too often, even find myself a thread killer on forums. Sorry.

[Peregrine Took]

3. Sigh...I don't know why I bother to write on these forums.

No more!

[applegrove]

4. I seem to be suspended in goo when

it comes to expressing myself these days. A combination of no alcohol and meds for ptsd I think. I used to be more outgoing in small gatherings of people I know well. Now not so much.

[Still Blue in PDX]

5. Yep. My son is always telling me that I say things that make my daughter's boyfriend uncomfortable.

Sometimes I feel bad about it and sometimes I just think, "Too bad."

[IrishAyes]

6. If a conversation has bored you into brain freeze, you're not entirely responsible for what

pops out of your mouth unbidden. Are you??? Frankly, there's only so much medical history and minutia of the lives of people I don't know and will never meet, that I can take. Maybe it beats political rants, though, so I should be grateful. Or pecking other people to pieces - especially moi. My family's gone now, but when they were alive I adored some and tried to stay as far away from the others as possible. One good thing about fractious Irish clans, however - usually like hangs with like, because it seems a lot of us feel the same way. What I loved was people who knew family history back to Ireland and could carry on at fascinating length about all the feuds and such. I also found that the less I said, the more I'd hear.