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I scored 106 – Very severe social anxiety. Finally I’ve discovered something I excel at.
Write your score in the comments below and see if you can beat mine.
I scored 106 – Very severe social anxiety. Finally I’ve discovered something I excel at.
Write your score in the comments below and see if you can beat mine.
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I suffer from a rare birth defect. It’s called good looks
— howtodosocialanxiety (@dosocialanxiety) December 16, 2014
When i was a young teen, my Grandma took me to see my Alzheimers riddled Great-Gran at a care home. Well my Grandma kept telling me about this parrot they had there that one of the elderly men had had … Continue reading
I saw a young kid chatting up a girl and thought to myself that reminds me of when i was a young boy… Except the girl was imaginary, i never left the house and i wore a bright orange Donnay … Continue reading
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Unless you are American and watched TV in the 1970s or have seen the film Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, it’s unlikely you would’ve heard of him.
He was famous for bringing an unwavering dedication to playing a character to the point where the public never knew whether he was in character or actually being serious. His specialty was fucking with people and making people feel some kind of emotion (usually cringe-worthy awkwardness). Sounds like generic comedy now-a-days, but no one had ever seen anything like it back then.
Without this guy it’s unlikely comedy would be the same today. There would be no Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan or Sasha Baron Cohen. In fact there would be no point in living.
He suffered from social anxiety.
Not only was he able to perform on stage, but he did things not even confident comedians were prepared to do. He took no medication and didn’t go through any therapy. Meditation was his medicine.
The main fear of the socially anxious is saying something bad and then being rejected by society, left to fend for yourself in the wild, likely leading to your own death. Andy was able to face his fears and do socially risky things. He never got rejected by society or died. Apart from when he died in 1984 at the age of 35.
My point is he didn’t let his anxieties interfere with what he wanted to do. Okay!