It’s not just you. We’re all socially awkward now.

As vaccinations ramp up and our social lives restart, many of us are rusty, tongue-tied, rambling or insecure — and it shows. “Social interaction is a million things knitted into one,” says Marisa Franco, a psychologist who specializes in friendship. It’s turning thoughts into speech, making eye contact, entering and exiting a conversation, and more. “It’s like you haven’t practiced a language, then you go back to the country and it starts to come back.”