Do you ever feel like you’re ‘treading on egg shells’ around literally everyone these days?

Navigating social relationships has become such an arduous chore that it’s turning me off from investing any energy in people. It feels like everyone is so ‘selectively’ hypersensitive even about the slightest things, and yet they can turn around and be so critical and dismissive themselves. I know we’re all stressed out with society’s expectations of doing everything faultlessly but it’s becoming so difficult to constantly say the right things.

Even some of my closer friends/ family misconstrue things a lot and whether I did say something that comes across (to them) as dismissive or offensive it’s never my intention. I’ve had social anxiety all my life so it’s not that I don’t consider what I say before I say them 99% of the time. Are people just projecting their issues on you because it’s like they’re telling you “what you meant by that” despite that actually not being the case? Like genuinely, how do they know anyway? It’s so hard to explain.

Anyway just wondering if anyone relates in some way and if so how do you cope with it/ avoid the tension?