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Post by Nobody on Nov 3, 2003 15:24:14 GMT -5
This is now a name people refer to me as at college after only 6 weeks because I don't speak very often, I find it impossible to start and maintain conversations. What names do people often refer to you as?
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 4, 2003 15:14:52 GMT -5
I never heard anyone refering to me as a particular name (even though I'm sure they referred to me as something), but I know sometimes they ask me why I never talk or they just say I never talk. I don't have much confidence and esteem in myself so I assume that people don't want to talk to me (part of my social anxiety problem). I do try to join in on the conversations sometimes, but I also always feel like I don't relate to anything they are talking about. I feel outcasted, like I have no life. I know I have a life; I just don't live the way most people live I guess...but when you are there at that moment when people are conversating, it's like you feel you're not good enough to know about what "they" are talking about...but then again you feel if you do say something, they might think you're weird or have no idea...so those are some reasons I just sit there. I feel uncomfortable sitting in class not talking though. You're there sitting alone while the rest of the class talks to each other. I hate that feeling and I do feel the anxiety coming over me. I'm glad I can control panic attacks though. Well anyway, I just rambled on...  |
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Post by Valerie on Nov 4, 2003 15:35:52 GMT -5
Hi! You wrote that you do not live life the way others do. I have found that people like to get to know others that do not live like they do. I always find it interesting to hear about others lives, especially when they are not "normal" lives. I want you to always remember though that no one is "normal". Try to define normal one time and I will bet you that you would not want to be what you had just described.
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 5, 2003 8:37:40 GMT -5
"Try to define normal one time and I will bet you that you would not want to be what you had just described." You were the one bringing up the word "normal" so you define what you mean as normal. And that second part, what do you mean "...you would not want to be what you had just described." Are you talking about what I wrote above or what I define normal as?  Yeah I know there's no such thing as a normal person as you say, but my point was that I don't live like what most people live like, especially people my age.  |
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Post by LarryWeinstein on Nov 5, 2003 8:39:27 GMT -5
MissAnxiety used to be my girlfriend. I can definitely say that she is completely normal... ordinary so to speak.
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 5, 2003 9:00:49 GMT -5
? ? ? ?who the heck are you Larry? ? ? ?  I've seen some of your crazy postings  . |
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Post by LarryWeinstein on Nov 5, 2003 9:11:08 GMT -5
Why are you claiming you don't know me, Miss Lambert? What did I do to you to deserver that sort of treatment.
Actually, scratch that thought... I know what I did.... Muhahahahhaahhahahahahaha
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 5, 2003 10:52:54 GMT -5
LMAO!! No I'm MissAnxiety ya big goof . |
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Post by Alex on Nov 6, 2003 17:34:58 GMT -5
I never talk. Everyone knows my name. I don't know anyone's. Is that weird?
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Post by NoName2Shy on Nov 7, 2003 8:55:40 GMT -5
I talk to people sometimes, but I get so tongue tied, I don't want to talk anymore and then I think I made a fool of myself...so I am recognized as "The Quiet One".... Unless I know you, then I can talk your ear off.  |
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 7, 2003 12:03:07 GMT -5
My husband is the same way! |
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Post by NoName2Shy on Nov 8, 2003 9:51:33 GMT -5
Miss Anxiety, would you ever get in front of an audience/crowd and talk? I took a class for that...didn't help.
But last night, I went to a friend's house. She's a singer. Her and her husband just bought a Karaoke game for PS2. It was so cool! So I am sitting there listening to her sign, and damn she sounds great, and then she hands the mic to ME!! And wanted me to sing!
I said "no no no"....and then her husband said he would. So we all sang along with him and then I finally did it!! That's the first time I have ever sung in front of anyone but my kids. And I got a score right below my friend's score!! LOL! And she's a professional singer!
Anyway my point is this...we all have so much talent but I think because of our fear and anxieties etc...we lose our talents or we don't know we ever had any.
I think I will go sing again tonight.
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Post by MissAnxiety on Nov 10, 2003 8:35:40 GMT -5
No unless I am forced to ...like it seems you cannot avoid that in college. I know I was dreading the speech class I was required to take. This is funny--my college has a distance learning speech class ! I figured it shouldn't be so bad since I'm sure I wouldn't be required as much to do a speech as much as an in-class course. That is true. My known talent is that I'm an artist, but I have started to "give up" on it because I fear that I'm not good anymore. |
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Post by glenn miller on Nov 10, 2003 22:16:59 GMT -5
i am the same as most of u. i usually never talk unless it is with someone i know. when i was in school and college people did not say much to me. like what u were saying.
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Post by Dodo on Nov 13, 2003 21:55:43 GMT -5
My husband is the same way! |
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