I have a few social phobias. Talking on the phone and writing emails to people I don't know very well are my main ones. On the phone, I get so nervous that my voice shakes and my palms sweat and I will do anything to get out of actually making a phone call. This does not apply to people I know well, such as my friends or my parents; I can call them just fine. With emails, I just freeze up whenever I have to send a new one... I can never think of what to say. When I do manage to send an email, I always get really scared of how the other person is going to respond, so I sometimes go for weeks without looking at my emails. Same applies to similar things like VMs, though those are less frightening since no one on here really has any influence over my future. But real-time chats with relative strangers are the worst-- I can't even bring myself to go on IRC most of the time. OH and I can't stand public speaking!!! I just get soooo nervous. I am basically the embodiment of the
socially awkward penguin meme... and it sucks, because I know my social phobias are doing me a ton of harm, but I haven't been able to get over them, and I've had them for pretty much my whole life :(
yuppppppp i'm a loser UGH