I’m known for being pretty sharp and hilarious among my friend circles but when it comes to courtship I 2nd guess everything that comes from my mouth.

I see an attractive girl on a park bench and all my natural wit disappears and leaves my either mind blank or some inept line from a rom com “so... how you doing? Just relaxing at the park are ya?” Or something ridiculous “wonder how many homeless folks have pissed on this very bench?” Or something a bit off putting like “so is this your strategy for picking up guys with dogs?”

The advice “just say whatever’s on your mind” might work if you have nice neat cute socially acceptable thoughts but it doesn’t work for me - my mind is bizarre and honestly I’d probably make it into a jail cell by the end of the day if I just walked around speaking my mind.

Filtering everything isn’t any fun either.

So what’s the best strategy forward? Do I just need to find someone who accepts what I say or is it normal to filter yourself?