I don't know what's happening to me.

[Warpy]

13. It starts to get harder to zip up your human suit and pretend to be social

once you hit your 40s, whether you're a garden variety introvert or you've got a toe dipped into the autism spectrum, and for a lot of women, that's a really close call. In either case, our 40s are when we start to hit that wall of exhaustion, we're just sick of pretending to be people we're not.

A lot of people have gotten really wigged out by a year of fear and isolation, and that's another part of the problem. Even the social butterflies have forgotten how to do normal for them. Things are going to stay stressful and weird for a while yet.

I'd say if you need more isolation to recharge your batteries these days, take it. It will take a long time to get back to normal, whatever that is, and some of us are not going to want to get there, at all.