Sat in the Corner

When you're out socialising, do you see someone sat on a chair at the side, looking awkward, and not participating?

They may well be rude and unsociable. They may simply not want to be around people.

But they may also just be desperate to socialise but completely unable to come to you.

Next time you're in a social gathering, look around you. Is everyone stood up, talking to each other?

Well, some of us can't stand. Some of us are forced to sit. And really, we should be lying down.

We may even need a wall behind us to hold our head up, as our neck isn't strong enough by itself.

We may be so shattered from just being out the house that simply thinking is too much.

Our anxiety may be crippling us to the point that just making eye contact scares us.

We may have spent so much time confined to our house for the last decade that we honestly don't know how to hold a conversation with someone, or have any knowledge of the world.

But you may be the first person (other than our carers and our GP) to speak to us in the last month. And we would love for you to come over. And we will try our hardest to communicate with you. We're sorry if it's not your normal standard of conversation, but it will mean the world to us.