Anyone ever get, like, deferred anxiety? Like, the anxiety hasn't actually begun to interact with me yet, but I am aware that it has awkwardly sat down beside me as though it was planning to sit in that spot anyway and I just happened to be there. So now we're carefully and silently avoiding eye contact, but eventually one of us will avert their eyes in the wrong direction at the wrong time and then I'll be stuck in a conversation I'd rather not have. anxiety