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Originally Posted by dreadnaught
Socially awkward to a painful degree, I can't help but get nervous around people I don't know on a personal level, but I've learned to fake it, unless I'm speaking to a crowd, which is virtually impossible without medication.
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what kind of medication do you take for that?
that reminds me.. i don't have any social anxiety around random people and talking to them one on one or in a small group but i can't do public speaking well at all. i tend to focus so much on how i sound that it makes me forget what i'm supposed to be talking about. people always say "oh you'll get used to it, it just takes practice" but i swear i never get used to it.
one time in business class i had to do a presentation on eco friendly business and my fly was down cause i had just taken a piss and then i noticed it was down mid presentation and out of instinct stopped what i was doing and zipped up without trying to hide it. and then the whole class was cracking up and i was like "****, that threw me off. i forgot what i was supposed to be talking about." and the weird thing was after that i felt pretty comfortable giving the presentation cause it was like i won everybody over by making an ass out of myself right away.