Humans are biologically hardwired to work towards social praise and respect. It’s not that we *think* people will judge us negatively. We’ve been getting mocked for how we speak and outcasted (mistaken as stupid) since we were young. We know for a fact that this happens. Go up to a drive thru right now, stutter a few times, and watch the impatient worker roll their eyes at you and throw all the negative body language cues in the world at you. So the fear is not *if* we will be judged negatively and outcasted socially but *when*. The whole thing we need to work on Is not caring and letting those who want to look at us negatively to expel themselves from our lives.