I’m totally socially awkward. Anybody else relate to this?
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I’m a little socially awkward when it comes to meeting new people.
If it’s someone I know already then I’m usually ok.
I’m almost always awkward. I’m just different. I think I see things differently from other people. I’ve always been able to make friends, but I’m still awkward.
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the thing with me is that i have these strict rules i put up in my mind concerning people around me and that makes my interactions robotic. i either seem overconfident or a nervous wreck when im talking to you. sometimes i don’t know the right time to start a conversation, like ill start talking when no one else is, when it is actually time to talk ill keep to myself. so this leads to me feeling like im eccentric or that im committing social faux pas all the time. everyone in my class comments on how “quiet” i am.
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I have great difficulties socialising most of the time.
I often go mute and feel angry men in my body that are hysterical and intense and angry and hateful I think but somehow I think they love me and visa Versa but I can not handle feeling em because I can not talk or move etc
I was comfortable with woman I agitated if and a few others but mostly not.
I avoid social situations and often have to leave a dinner or suffer immensely through it.
we had a bbq a while back and I ran into the bathroom crying and stayed there crying until all the guests had left.
Might of only been three people but it was aweful feeling this man and others in my body .
I had to leave.
Horrid.
Baaa baaaa 
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I relate. I feel like I’m going through puberty every day. Social norms make me nuts, I can’t keep up. I work a job where I talk to people and some days it is tough to stay present; I’m thinking of the last conversation, the conversation a day ago, then one last week. I hate sz!
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Yes. I can relate. I’m not just socially awkward, I am socially incapacitated.
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Totaly. Im an imberesment
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What are your strict rules?
What do you think triggered the crying?
What do you do for a living?
I’m in sales and marketing for the LA Times, a Southern California newspaper publication.
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I don’t have a social problem, I can blend very well.
The problem is that schizophrenia is disabling and prevents me from functioning.
Further, my religious views put me automatically outside the mainstream.
Both in the secular world, in the eyes of other religions and even in the eyes of strict
adherents of my own religion.
I’m really socially awkward bc if I were to even meet a new person I don’t know what’s customary for me to say in order to keep the conversation going. I’m quiet and don’t have much to say bc my medicine blanks me out. I did hang out with my best friend a couple days ago and it went fine- I didn’t go in public tho, which is a phobia I’m trying to overcome. I hadn’t hung out with a single person in a year and a half and I wish this was normal but it obviously isn’t. I just wish the medicine didn’t take so much out of me so I could work on my personality. I used to be energetic, funny, engaging, happy, all this stuff. Now I’m quiet, reserved, too mellow, and I have no ambition now. I hope adding Memantine to my regimen will help bc then I might enjoy things better
Try an anti depressant, could help socially and with motivation
I also struggle with going out. And my medicine makes my mind seem blank too.
They thought I had Aspergers Syndrome when really it was just the schizophrenia.
Something that changed my view on socializing was hearing that if you keep talking with someone the better the chance of them finding something they like about you and you them. It seems to me that talking to someone for the first time might be dreadful, as in slow and awkward, but if you can just keep pushing through you might make a good friend(which has happened to me btw).
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I do pretty well with my family functions but sometimes I suddenly have to go home, used to be I was afraid of driving at night…but now I can relax and stay late at the get together’s. I play guitar and sing…and the few beers I drink calm me down.
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I’m not socially awkward,
But when it comes to big crowds it’s too much things going on in my head so is a little bother,
And there’s times just when I can’t get the words out of my mouth right which pisses me off,
But overall, no I’d say I’m a social person.
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