Are you the silent type?

[MrDawn]

Are you pretty talkative or do people deem you as the silent type?

 

[Jawneh]

I'm fairly introverted. Online I tend to be a lot more open and expressive until I get comfortable with the people around me. Though, I have worked on myself more and have stopped caring as much for my goofy weird little quirks I do in public. Some things I still don't do just for decency sake. Or my wife's sake lol.

I rarely initiate anything. If you come to me and start a conversation with me about something I'm at least a little bit interested in, I'll indulge you with no issues. No way I'm going to you and ask anything though. I'll keep to myself thanks. But maybe on a completely flip side, I never had any issues with doing any public speaking kind of things at school or otherwise. Some times I was even a little bit excited for them. Weird mental things I suppose.

 

[Mark]

Generally, I’m a pretty quiet and reserved person. I’ve been told that I’m not approachable, which doesn’t really surprise me one bit. However, I have absolutely no issues with anything in between initiating a conversation with a stranger or a confrontation, so it’s not like a social anxiety thing… I just consider myself to be more of an observant person than an outgoing one, and I’ve always believed you learn more by shutting up and listening to others rather than just hearing them.

 

[Crystal]

Online I can't shut the fuck up. In real life, good luck getting much out of me. Social and general anxiety disorders, until I really know someone, I just can't bring myself to open up at all.

 

[Crystal]

Then I just spend a long time replaying everything in my head and wondering if I said or did something wrong.

This. I do do this SO much. I kick myself for opening up because I always feel like there's at least one thing I said that was stupid and it goes on and on and on in my head.

 

[Crystal]

I lowkey actually do it here too.

I've sometimes messaged people to apologize if I offended them and I'm always met with a "no you're fine".

A reasonable adjustment would be to stop.. but, yeah.

Oh same, that what has GWF given me post? Took me two days to not constantly go back and re read it and make sure I hadn't said something stupid

 

[Crystal]

You have no idea how long my finger hovered over post for my reply.

Isn't anxiety just so much fun?