Let's Bust Myths: What Misconceptions About Social Anxiety Do You Encounter?
Let's Bust Myths: What Misconceptions About Social Anxiety Do You Encounter?
I think we all had these annoying situations where an uninformed people doesn't know what they are talking about. Do you have any particular one that grinds your gears?
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I'll go first (since i forgot to add mine in the post) I dislike it very much when someone thinks they can "cure" my shyness/anxiety by putting a spotlight on me or putting me in a cringy situation. It just makes me wish the earth would swallow me whole.
At school we where forced to have a lesson in "spoken word". We did not have our usual teacher but instead a spoken word artist as substitute for these lessons.
I don't know what their plan was but they put me specially on the spot twice. Once when reading a poem we had to write. Mine was more of a tongue twister then a poem, had me perform it in front of the class.
Then there was one class about improv. Where you guessed it, I was chosen to improv with some other students.. I did not get better. I got worse from that experience.
im so sorry to hear that. forcing people to be social or performative is pretty ableist and often does more harm than good. i always find it nice if i am allowed to participate. but not forced. schools often get that wrong in my personal experience.
The amount of presentations in front of the class I'd have to do. Even up into university.
I think the only presentation I was not utterly terrified for was my master thesis presentation, which is also the only presentation that ever mattered. I had plenty of time to prepare, it was fully online (pandemic time), I talked about something I cared about and I did it from home ^^