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[hamster]

I would try to attend a social mountain bike race and compete in the sport class without feeling like a loser for turning up alone knowing no-one.

I would try and contact the few people from my past who tried to contact me over the years and whom I have ignored.

I would move to another country and try and make a new start. It would feel less awkward than trying to make a few friends here and having those fiends realise that I have lived here my entire life and haven't made any friends who I have contact with outside of the  workplace  in 20 years.

I would try not to over analyse every conversation I have with people.

[YIPSIE]

I've never been to a concert in my life.  Although I don't pay much attention to current stars, I'd love to get to some kind of concert just to see what the buzz is all about.  I'd also love to go to Disney World or something like that since I do have a bit of an adrenaline junky personality when I'm not stuck behind closed doors.  I would also call some people that I have distanced myself from, and probably beg for forgiveness for being such a rotton bitch for 39 years.  The top of that list would be my mother.  

[WinglessFaery]

Are you kidding? I WOULD RULE THE FRIGGIN WORLD!!

[amy5000]

Are you kidding? I WOULD RULE THE FRIGGIN WORLD!!

This is what I was thinking when I opened this thread!

[WinglessFaery]

Haha yes!

[Breebree93]

Well, first of all I would get a job

 

Then I would go to college 

 

I would make more friends and go places to make friends

 

Probably join some kind of art club

 

I'd do a lot if I weren't such a chicken. 

[ArinnaBlack]

I'd like to go out and try to meet new people and actually make friends--or, if that doesn't work, I'd just like to be able to have people ignore me when I try to make friends with them and not feel completely and utterly crushed about it. 

 

I'd also like to take just ALL THE CLASSES. Cooking classes, self-defense classes, whatever that class is that people in movies are always doing where they make vases and stuff on some spinning thing with a pile of clay on it? I've always wanted to do that.

[melissaw72]

Self defense would be something I'd like to do too, given that I have a hip replacement (with the longer rod that goes down to my knee; point being my thigh is strong, but the hip isn't all that strong).  I also can't run, or scream.  I can try to scream but my vocal chords "paralyze" and nothing comes out of my mouth.  I end up just freezing up and not moving.  I'd like to learn how to defend my self given those limitations.

[moxirox]

I would wear colors. All the time. And not worry about sweating my way through layers of clothes just because I am in panic mode. I'd also hold hands. With anyone. And I would go talk to people I thought looked interesting. And not worry.

[Brokendishes]

Are you kidding? I WOULD RULE THE FRIGGIN WORLD!!

Haha! Aint that the truth!lol  Me too for sure on that one!...lol

 

I'd settle though for just being able to eat in public...

[moxirox]

Don't feel too bad. Going out is overrated.

 

Perhaps if you don't have a problem being around lots of people, but I would love to go out without fear.

[Mirazh]

I would be more socially active in the various scenes that I wish to participate in.

 

See, I am capable of doing my job - sales/retail.  And well.  You'd think someone with social anxiety to be incapable of such a thing.  In an adult store yet.  Though for me it's the subject matter that helped me stick with the job and become good at it.

 

Outside of work, I am very very very much a hermit.  I've managed to join with a Wiccan teaching circle which means a weekly class with my teacher and two other students.  Events on the Sabbats can be difficult to attend, even if my teacher and/or one of my fellow students are in attendance - I've had to take anti-anxiety meds before attending some, and I've ended up avoiding others entirely.  Even at the last minute.

 

I want to attend more pagan social activities that are held locally.  And things run by the local polyamorous social group.  And events, both social and otherwise, run by various local kink groups.  And I want to attend events that're run by and for local queers, and local trans people.

 

I used to attend a weekly thing where people go a spin things like hoola hoops, poi, staff, contact juggling, etc.  I haven't been able to attend in over two years thanks to social anxiety.

 

If I had no social fears, I would do all of those things.  Or some of them.  I would make friends a lot more easily.  I would hide in less corners when I do make it out.  I would take off my headphones more often.

[inabook]

I would go to art classes, or photography classes, join associations and not freak out when I see that, OMG, there are people in associations!

I would have more healthy food, because I would dare to go to the kitchen to cook.

I would not turn down every party with more than 3 people. 

I would have time to learn Turkish instead of freaking out before going out of my room every day.

[isthisit?]

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Edited by isthisit?, 26 April 2013 - 08:00 AM.