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Dr. Danny DeReuter
@dereuter · 1:46

Social Anxiety strikes again

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And he's like, oh, isn't Christian Bale the best Batman? And I'm like, what? Yeah, isn't Christian Bale the best Batman? And it's like I couldn't even fathom. Like, what the h*** are you talking about, man? And then finally I understood what he was doing. And I was like, oh, okay, yes, he was good. But I kind of liked this new one too. So it just started a whole conversation

Wore my Batman shirt to Home Depot and then started an awkward conversation (For me)

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@allowthesun
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 2:47
But I realized through this pandemic and being in the different lockdowns, I don't know if I actually am an expert or if I was more just kind of thinking I needed to be like that needed to be around people all the time in that kind of the FOMO like fear of missing out. But yeah, very curious. I definitely feel like I have shifted that now where I am way more, way more recharged and at peace when I finally have some time alone. Yeah
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@rocio
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 2:01
Hey, Danny, thank you for sharing this feels I I recognize this moment so much from my own life. I've definitely felt like panic going out into the world, feeling like somebody was going to to talk to me when I didn't want to. I think for me, at least, that's what kind of unravels in this social anxiety is kind of having the expectation or the worry that someone will talk to me as if it's like the end of the world
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@dereuter
Dr. Danny DeReuter
@dereuter · 0:39

#Thankyou

Hey guys. Thank you for replying. I think having somebody just breaking the conversation startled me, I think. And then I guess I wasn't prepared for it. And I didn't have anything witty to say. I didn't have have anything. I just kind of felt stupid there because I didn't know how to react. And maybe that just threw me off. Threw all my social cues off. But yeah, maybe that's all that happened again
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@WaveyBones
Jonny Walker
@WaveyBones · 4:50
And I don't know about you, but maybe he thought or saw that you could have been having a neutral or a bad day and was like, I think I'm going to strike up a conversation to socialize with this person a little bit because we have been going through these coveted restrictions and lockdowns and stuff
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@mikes1648
Michael Smith
@mikes1648 · 3:19

Response

I said, that was such a time when MTV came out and she looked at me and screamed and ran back to her friends because I spoke to her. And all I can think of was that perhaps she has just been kind of a quiet person and I had overstepped a boundary or something like that. But perhaps the boundary that I overstepped was her comfortableness outside of herself. So I've told this story a couple of times. I'll tell it again
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@Gracegracegrace
Malika Green
@Gracegracegrace · 2:41
Hi Danny. No, I totally relate to your post about social anxiety. I've felt similarly in many ways, but kind of opposite too. Like have a young child. So I spend a lot of time in playgrounds and I just moved out of New York City into a College town, and nobody talks to me anymore. And I'm like, what's wrong with me? Everybody looks at me and thinks I'm a loser. And of course nobody is thinking that
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