SORRY I'M LATE, I didn't want to come vocab [A]

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Across
  1. 1. Where Jessica faces her greatest fear: public speaking
  2. 3. Quality that makes her reflections so relatable
  3. 9. Trait she reclaims after abandoning her “extrovert mask.”
  4. 11. Temporary mindset she studies through lived experience
  5. 13. Experience she practices handling through “rejection therapy.”
  6. 14. Quality she discovers deepens real relationships
  7. 17. New medium she experiments with to communicate
  8. 20. The invisible antagonist of her social life
  9. 22. Coping mechanism that defines her storytelling style
  10. 23. What replaces her old self-criticism
  11. 25. What she realizes she’s been searching for all along
  12. 27. Overwhelming feeling before social events
  13. 28. What her discomfort ultimately produces
  14. 29. Emotional openness she learns is key to belonging
  15. 32. Skill she develops through repetition, not nature
  16. 33. What she calls her year of forced extroversion
  17. 35. Emotion she repeatedly confronts
  18. 37. The persona she temporarily adopts
  19. 39. Her natural personality type before saying “yes.”
  20. 40. The main character
Down
  1. 2. Her final lesson: being herself matters more than being social
  2. 4. Emotional state from which her transformation begins
  3. 5. Symbol of connection and courage in her comedy journey
  4. 6. Dreaded setting she learns to navigate with grace
  5. 7. Personal arena she reenters while practicing bravery
  6. 8. Comfort zone she leaves behind to speak up more
  7. 9. A motif that defines both her humor and growth
  8. 10. The emotional goal behind all her “yeses.”
  9. 12. The new muscle she trains throughout her journey
  10. 15. Small but terrifying object during her open-mic debut
  11. 16. Art form she dares to perform live
  12. 18. The word that encapsulates her entire year
  13. 19. Process of rebuilding her identity through extroversion
  14. 21. Workshop she attends to push past social fears
  15. 24. What she learns to embrace as part of growth
  16. 26. The City where Jessica conducts her year-long social experiment
  17. 30. Jessica’s nemesis before her first stand-up act
  18. 31. Emotional support and reflection tool during her experiment
  19. 34. Common meeting place where she tests small-talk skills
  20. 36. Act of stepping into fear before an audience
  21. 38. Her newfound strength in handling awkward situations