I was literally put into a kidnapped situation of accepting an invitation that I tried to get out of...

So, I told the person who invited me that I couldn't go to the pool party and she questioned the reason and I choked and so now I guess I am going.

I told her I didn't think I would be able to make it and thought that was the end of the conversation, but she asked me why and I guess I kind of froze and didn't know what to say. In any situation, there is fight, flight, or freeze and I guess in this situation I froze... to my detriment.

She just said, I will be expecting you and walked away. I literally didn't know what happened. And, now I'm literally stuck. Parties just are not my "thing." There's just so much conversation and questioning and non-stop interaction. I'm as social as the next person, but something like this is well above sustained capability for a normal person. There will probably be about 30 people there. I suppose it might seem like this is one of those social anxiety related issues that people tend to want to assign to me. But, I'm not sure that it is.

This is going to be nerve-wracking and it might not be survivable.