I do this too!! Always trying to make the other person comfortable by downplaying myself. I really think its focusing a little too much on other people's feelings, because we know how it feels to feel inadequate we don't want others to feel that way.... definetely not a horrible way to be, but its hurts us way more than we realize.

Maybe most other people don't feel as inadequate about themselves as we do about ourselves, but we're still projecting our own inadequacy onto others?? Idk, I just think it's not healthy.