Lmao. I thought this was going to be totally different ... but I got my laugh in for the day. Making points, yet all the things the us awkard people struggle with. Employment gaps hahaha ... uhhh I haven’t quite figured out how to explain that and make it seem nonchalant *silence* ... what do you do? I cringe - I don’t like what I’m doing and still searching for my passion.. how do you make that sound assertive? And yet still the awkward silence to deal with... why? Why? Why! Is this so challenging.
Please I advice you to be yourself as an introvert if you don't like small talk you'll never become a talkative you'rejust deceiving yourself be true to who you arw.
Maybe the people who refuse to have a brief, meaningless and inappropriately chipper conversation with you have no use for your petty approval in the first place. Assuming that they're too unintelligent to, "small talk," is a sign of a serious personality disorder, in my humble opinion.