They called you the quiet one. Turns out you were just choosing what was worth saying.

Quiet gets read as empty when it is often the opposite: a filter running at a higher setting than everyone else’s. Plenty of talking is thinking out loud, which is fine, and plenty of silence is thinking that has not reached the standard for speech yet. The label describes your output, not your interior.

Keep the filter, and check it is not set so high that nothing ever gets through. One useful test this week: when you have a thought you decide not to say, ask whether you are protecting the room or protecting yourself. Say the second kind.