Posted by Dinah on April 18, 2011, at 2:59:54
In reply to Anyone with social anxiety, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 15, 2011, at 17:50:47
It's strange. I'm not one whit shy, but I have a lot of social anxiety.
How I deal with it, like everything else in my life, varies a lot from day to day. Some days I can cope with socialization by donning a mask, even if it's a bit awkward for me and others, and deal well enough. Other days, I hide from the world.
I expect the world to judge me harshly, because in general it has. To expect something different than what I have always experienced would be foolish.
I'm socially awkward, at best. Some days that bothers me. Other days not so much. Sometimes I can be almost gregarious.
I really feel like I'm not the same person from one day to the next.
I think what may have helped, long term, is to become content with not being around others. While it's true that the most giddy-happy times of my life were defined by my greater than normal social connections to others, I have plenty of content times as a real life hermit.
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