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I ask because I find interacting with people pretty difficult a lot of the time. I find small talk almost impossible and become overly concerned with with how people are perceiving me - i think probably because i have to battle my own judgemental side a lot, and suspect that people are looking at me the way i look at them.
I completely agree with Infinite when s/he says that there's nothing positive about being cripplingly shy. I consider it to be a severe disability.
I'd love to somehow be made to be 'unshy'. People can be talking and I just clam up and have nothing whatsoever to say. Why bother I guess. It's just noise and what you say doesn't count for anything anyway.
Rach's first sentence is so true. And the bit about jobs, although it's not why. I'm too scared to apply for a job because my head thinks that I'll never get it. It's why I've been stuck in McDonalds for 2 and a half years and I'm being taken advantage of. I've never been good at making friends irl and so I don't go out anywhere. It took me 2 months to ring up the doctor and ask them whether they had my blood test results.
I can fake confidence, for interviews and things, but things like presentations and new social situations scare the living crap out of me. I never know whether to just get it over with or put it off and put it off.
Bah.
Yeah I think it's this too and also the interview stage. I absolutely *freak* in interviews. So much so that the worst one I can remember is that I physically shook and it was like my throat had closed up because I couldn't get my words out at all. The interviewer even had to offer me a glass of water. The interview was for a receptionist job too. I tried to explain that this wasn't a representation of what I am usually like and it was just nerves but yeah..understandably I didn't get it.