Trust me in today's society everyone thinks likes you. Most are just trying to fit in and hope that they don't get singled out and branded as the strange one out of a group. Or fired or given a less desirable task.
I find The adult world is not to different to the schoolyard, it's just in the adult world we have to put on a fake smile at first.
Iam very authentic, but lately I've been in a you could say grey area in my mind and life, and this grey does not exactly put a smile on my face. And I show this, in new groups and social events, at dinner tables. Iam blank atm
Does this single me out? Yes it does but I can't do anything about it.
In regards to the dish cloths stressing you out, this might come down to the fact that you don't know how to express yourself and say "NO I disagree with this."
I found alot of my social anxiety was to do with not knowing the power of "NO" and how to use it properly.