i feel like I'm a background character in my own life
I can go outside, but anytime I try to talk to anyone I say dumb shit or nonsense word salads, so after one or two conversations people avoid me.
each time it happens, I feel less and less upset over it, it's natural after all.

>>85094507
>How much did social anxiety screw your life?
Pretty much i didn't have life because of it.
Before my 25 or so i was terrified to ask store managers to give me goods from self etc. Catastrophizing to the extreme.
Slowly i grew up over it by stress exposure but now i am old and my life is pretty much over and i didn't achieve anything because i was so terrified of other people.

File: 1784155501876564.jpg (57 KB, 735x414)

57 KB JPG

>>85094507
Not much. I'm extremely direct, assertive and outgoing.
Honestly it's usually other people's "social anxiety" and their mixed signal bullshit that has been a problem for me.
>Not all of you socially anxious people. Back in the day I used to love helping you guys out of your shells. Shit made me feel like being myself was a super power
>I'm talking about the new trend of retards who use "muh social anxiety" as an excuse for everything

>>85094507
It ruined my life because it manifested as physically paralyzing gut anxiety for me. Western intellectual culture was way too neck-up for me to understand and fix this issue until recently. The fix, of course, is somatic meditation.

>>85094526
>anytime I try to talk to anyone I say dumb shit or nonsense word salads
atleast I know I am not alone in this misery
literally why I am a fully capable of understanding speech and text but the second I need to speak it the knowledge simply appears to evaporate from my noggin

>>85094507
To be honest it was my own fault, thought it didn't help that I am overly sensitive.