Shyness would require caring what you think in the first place.

Someone assumed the quiet meant nervous, meant awkward, meant working up the courage to say something nice. That was never what was happening. The silence was a decision, and it was about you specifically.

People love mistaking disinterest for shyness because the alternative feels too direct to sit with. You stopped correcting that assumption a while ago. Some people just don't make the cut, and that's allowed.

Rebel Ink respects a clean dismissal.