“Something about ‘the liking gap’ doesn’t quite gel with me,” writes Daisy Jones in an essay about no longer caring what people think of her after years of social anxiety.
I was at a garden party the other night, eating a folded zucchini passed to me via a little cocktail stick, when I suddenly ran out of things to say. It wasn’t the first time this had happened that week. A previous night I’d been in the smoking area of a music venue with people that I know and like when my ability to construct a flowing conversation seemed to mysteriously dry up.
The liking gap is obviously great news for the paranoid among us. Turns out that your friends probably don’t secretly hate you because of that time you laughed weirdly at a house party, or didn’t have the right opinion about a current event. Still, something about the liking gap doesn’t quite gel with me. Not because I don’t think it’s true—it’s based on an academic study, after all—but because I wonder whether it’s actually helpful to think about how much others do or don’t like us.
Eventually I developed insecurities, although it’s hard to pinpoint when. It could have been after I went through a period of depression at university and lost some of my social ease. It could have been when I started working in media, an industry riddled with perception-based paranoia. Or it could have just been because I got older, with my childlike delusions getting stripped away like old paint. Either way, I was like Eve eating the apple and discovering her own nakedness.
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