[Trapped]

I see this all over the place. I've had to tell a few saints sometimes who are hesitant to give their input that we're so afraid of expressing a thought that could be construed as an opinion that we end up even being afraid of expressing an idea!

I remember one time I noticed some grammatical errors on a handout several days before it was to be handed out. They were clear as day, obvious, no doubt in any remotely educated person's mind that they were incorrect and needed to be fixed before it was passed out to the saints. But in checking with the brothers who put the handout together, we had to say "we believe there are errors" rather than state the fact that "there are errors", in case we were wrong and couldn't trust the words that were right in front of our eyes because "maybe they know something we don't know."

Super small example but those subtle self-doubt, deferential, "it's not my place", "I must not know what I'm talking about" type maneuvers are common (and drive me up the wall!)