>>331476980
I'm permamute in VRchat because I was selectively mute in real life, not speaking to anyone but close family for 5 years so I never developed any social skills beyond what I knew at age 10. I tried to correct it from age 16, but I'm almost 30 now and haven't made much progress aside from pre-programmed lines to use at work and in other essential situations. Outside of that my brain shuts down completely and won't produce any response at all for minutes unless it was something I'd been discussing in my own head already so I can just repeat one side of that. I never had friends before age 10 either, so I was just fucked from the start.

Maybe you're just anxious and not completely broken, though.