You might feel like a victim if everyone is laughing and you don't know whyantisocialOne night I went out to a nightclub in Italy with a group of around twenty years, pretending to follow their complex conversations with smiles and nods. As we walked through the crowd, a hiker shouted "que bella figa", which one person told me was a compliment, another group of people started laughing and others were horrified. Of course, I felt like crawling into a little hole because I didn't even have enough vocabulary to understand the detailed meaning of the word. Thanks to Word Reference, I was able to get this preview when I got home. I still didn't know how to feel.4. You find yourself being antisocial and learn to work things out. Your brain has to function at a level it's not used to, and when things get too complicated, you realize you're building a safety mechanism that allows you to have selective hearing. You also start to avoid conversations because of the fatigue it causes you, but don't fuel this! It will be harder at first to get your points across or understand complex dialogue, but don't come across as this big loser who doesn't have a personality because you do, and there are ways to show that even without language. Takes me to my next