How difficult it is speaking with other people! Or perhaps not difficult but stressful. When I speak with someone I like to know who they are, what their backstory is, where the common ground between us is and vice versa, before having any kind of interaction with them. Because in even the simplest interaction my overactive imagination takes each slight detail and extrapolates it to its logical limit. If I see a logo for a sports team I am thinking about sports and my perception of the person is colored negatively based on my negative opinion about the sports industry. I am bored and less inclined to listen to them. If the person has a lot of tattoos or piercings I have to hide the slight disgust I feel about that kind of fashion choice. Prejudices ought to be checked before any encounter with another human being. I believe in giving everyone a fair opportunity during these communications, but this is not always possible. Sometimes the information from the details is too much for my mind and instead I will disconnect from the interaction, depersonalize to create distance between my overpowering and distracting thoughts. Essentially I will wear a mask through the interaction, and that usually allows me to accomplish the business at hand.
Of course there are other forms of communication besides face-to-face, such as online communication. I think so much of the time spent behind screens is frying our brains and making simple transactions more tense sometimes, even when the conversation participants are more socially apt.