PERFORMANCESocial Exhaustion signals
Anonymous thoughts about social exhaustion.
The depletion that follows the performance of presence.
The relief of a cancelled plan and what that reveals.
The maintenance of the social self and what it runs on.
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Social exhaustion is the depletion that comes from sustained social performance — not necessarily from disliking people, but from the energy cost of being in a room. The maintenance of the social self. The reading of rooms, management of impressions, performance of appropriate responses. Most people are more susceptible than they admit.
Anonymous thoughts about social exhaustion posted here are from people who need to say what social interaction actually costs them — and the specific relief that comes from being alone.