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Do I have anxiety?
Okay so I just started high school and I guess you can say I've prepared myself for a year of loneliness and hiding out in the bathroom during lunch all just to avoid people. I don't know why I just.. freeze up around a lot of people. I can't talk. I can't ask for things. Mostly people just think something is wrong with me. That's what my parents always say. They always force me to over my cousins' houses and go to parties and stuff and they always say " dOn'T wOrRY jUsT bE nOrMaL fOr oNcE aNd hAvE fUn." but you know what? I don't have fun. I'm awkward and I can't hold conversations even if my life depended on it. I just can't force myself to speak or be "normal" I guess. Its probably obvious by now that I don't have many friends. So I make up people in my head. I pretend that they like me for me. It passes time but its not gonna work forever. I hate being so scared of anything even my teachers think they're is something wrong with me. They've talked to my parents so apparently, I'm getting a therapist or something. I feel like I'm the only person like this seriously
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- Anonymous3 years agoFavorite Answer
I'm the same way, it was much worse in grade school since I never spoke at all. NOT ONE WORD, literally, I had guidance counselors and teachers think I was retarded they'd often pull me out of class and try to get me to talk, of course I didn't and never did. Then I had my mom intervene when they were thinking about recording me speak and after that they never bothered me again until I transitioned to high school.
When I had to go to High School they were either going to send me to a stupid school for dumb kids or I start talking and so I did, but it was limited only to ask for homework that I may have missed or to read aloud. Rarely would I speak in a conversation, I just can't hold them for very long. And I still can't.
If I were speaking in person to you right now I would be unable to say all the things I just wrote.
Of course, I speak when I must when buying gas or when I need something, but as for conversations, I just can't. It isn't in me to do it.
But I've come to accept this shyness. The fact is, you're are normal, they way you interact with people is different. You prefer to be alone. And that is perfectly fine, when your parents force you to go places that will only stress you out more and make you even more uncomfortable, it could get to a point where you'd be absolutely exhausted.
A therapist will not work for you, there is nothing wrong with you.
Trying to force an introvert to be extroverted will only cause more problems for the person.