Hortensia
Loved your answer to the "bad association" comment.
A few months back, a woman I barely remembered stopped me in the grocery store and asked if she knew me. We finally figured out that we had gone out to dinner once or twice with this group of JW women who used to get together years ago. So she asked me what congregation I was in now and I said I didn't go anymore.
Well, her face immediately changed and she asked me in a hushed whisper if I was disfellowshipped. I nearly burst out laughing because of how her face changed and it was all just so out of my frame of reference for living to ask someone you barely knew in the grocery store a question like that. What possible difference could it make to either of our lives for that 2 minute interaction we were having after a decade of not even thinking of each other? It was like she was from another country and didn't speak my language.
Anyway, I said, "I don't think so, but I don't go anymore so I might have missed the announcement. Just to be on the safe side, you probably shouldn't talk to me anymore, and then I just smiled and walked away (and burst out laughing when I got out the door).
You know you are healed when shunning is actually funny to you now.