Social Anxiety

[Aries Walker]

I probably have some kind of social anxiety. I don't like crowds, I don't like meeting people, I even have a hard time going out with a lot of my friends. I don't want to deal with customers; just give me a pair of headphones and a corner of the office and let me process paperwork all day and I'll be fine. I hate being recognized or even noticed, I will never ever dance in public, and at parties I tend to stand in the corner. The biggest perpetual hurdle I have with my schoolwork is when they put us in groups with strangers and we all grade each others' work. People suggest I become a teacher or a professor, but I really have little interest in getting in front of a room full of people and have them all. watching. me. I hate that.

I also don't care if I have a social anxiety. I have a perfectly good life, doing what I like alone or with the few people I love, without feeling the burning need to make new friends.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

I probably have some kind of social anxiety. I don't like crowds, I don't like meeting people, I even have a hard time going out with a lot of my friends. I don't want to deal with customers; just give me a pair of headphones and a corner of the office and let me process paperwork all day and I'll be fine. I hate being recognized or even noticed, I will never ever dance in public, and at parties I tend to stand in the corner. The biggest perpetual hurdle I have with my schoolwork is when they put us in groups with strangers and we all grade each others' work. People suggest I become a teacher or a professor, but I really have little interest in getting in front of a room full of people and have them all. watching. me. I hate that.

I also don't care if I have a social anxiety. I have a perfectly good life, doing what I like alone or with the few people I love, without feeling the burning need to make new friends.

I wasn't as antisocial as you are, but the thought of standing in front of people every day sounded absolutely miserable to me when I was in college as well. Then I actually had to do it as a TA teaching Freshman Composition in graduate school in order to pay for my education, and I started to love being in front of a classroom. YMMV, though.