I'm too nervous to go to Subway. If my daughter wants to I just give her the money and let her choose my sandwich. Luckily she knows exactly what I like and so far I haven't had any weird food.

I’m ACTIVELY trying to make friends, but the actions that take me extreme effort to do are apparently natural for everyone.

YES!!! These people are genuinely some of the best people! We ALL need people like this in our lives!

Or when you finish a assignment in class and you wait for someone else to turn it in first so that you know it's now okay to go turn it in too

Your mom felt that

"Imagining myself in situations that will never exist" seriously like 25% of my life is me reading a book but accidentally going off-track and not realizing

There were/are so mqny of us!! 🧡

Omfg.....I'm not alone.

they called on us randomly. :( whenever I was called on my voice would come out in a high-pitched squeak that was too hard for the people across the room to hear. good times...

Yup.

OMG, I did the same thing, and was so worried about my turn, that I couldn't pay attention to the story.

I did this in college too! And I was 33 years old!

Wait, most people don't do that? Luckily, my secondary school (The equivalent of grades 6 through 10 in America) allowed you to read up to one sentence, then stop if you needed to. That did wonders for me and my classmates

Same!

Soo relatable😁

When I heard the words "give a presentation" to the class made me severely panic even if it wasn't for another two months

When I was in primary school my class became penpals with a class in another school. To introduce ourselves the teacher decided we would send them a video with each child saying "Hi, my name is ...". I sat there quietly practicing what I would say as she got closer to my seat. Messed it up. Literally messed up my own name, on camera and was laughed at by the whole class (and likely the penpal class too when they saw it). Pretty sure that was the start of mine.

Actually skipped school once because I did this and the passage the next day when it would be my turn was about birds and had the word “breast” and there was no way I was saying that in front of my entire sixth grade class.

Still doing it to this day lol

I needed a bookmark under each line so I wouldn't lose my place in the sentence. Reading out loud terrified me.

Omg I did that! Knowing who wasn't paying attention so you had to skip them. Lol

Hah, I do the same thing.

Yep

Me too!

I would do this in school too. I hate reading allowed. I always sound like, I just learned to read. I still hate reading allowed (if I have to).

I did this too! But not because I was anxious...

That and presentations, and in addition to that ~ I'm not sure how common this practice is but the schools I went to in Ontario made us do speeches from grade 4 - grade 8. Which required us to pick a topic, do a ton of research and citations, write an entire speech on it and memorize it and then present it in front of the class. The process to 2-3 months and got lengthier each year. A major part of the grade was not looking at your note cards and memorizing it fully while making continual eye contact with the class/teacher while presenting. We got graded for the written work but a strong portion of the grade was based on how well you could present, which also included how long it took you to present and the speed and volume and cadence in which you spoke. It was also a competition where one kid would represent all the grades annually and then compete against other schools and win things. We had a girl whose mom basically was living through her daughter and gave no other kids a chance.

I did that too. I don't know why. I was always a good reader but still I would do that just so I could read it even faster and get through the ordeal that much quicker.

You mean this isn't normal???

I did this too, although sometimes I'd just cry and the teacher would skip me.

A Young woman did this in our English literature class. She went to the bathroom just before her turn and when she came back the douchbag-teacher said: let's go back to our shy friend. Might I add this was university.

Right there with you. I thought I was the only one who did that.

Yeah but I was too worried that I'd miscount and practice the wrong section, can't take those kinds of chances tho

I am not exactly an introvert, but I have an Extreme fear of talking in front if more than 2 or 3 people. It was a problem when I was a waitress. Did a lot of sweating it cracker barrel.

I did this too--but I have to say I don't think it made me more anxious. It was probably calmed it. My anxieties come from other things.....sigh.

This is why I do not make my students read out loud! They have a choice - they can if they choose to or they can say pass and I will read their part. Never force a child to read out loud!!!!

100% I did this every time and only now realized it was because of anxiety

I'm in my 40s, and I still do this. Whenever I'm in a meeting and there are any documents distributed to us (meeting topics, notes, etc), I'll quickly read everything just in case I'm asked to present anything (which is rare, but still possible)

I did this too! And then I would still F-up my section.

When the teacher would tell the student in front of you to keep reading, or stop at one point. It was like she altered the space time continuum, causing you read the two page paragraph...

In first grade when it was my turn i started reading really fast because I was good but also because i wanted it to be over already, but the other kids couldn't keep up so the teacher had to keep telling me to slow down, which made me panic and read even faster

I’d hope and pray it was going to be a short section by the time it got to me.

And it never works because my teacher used to make us read at random.

Yes. Me too!

I think it’s because social anxiety centres around you personally, and when it crosses over the focus shifts on someone else and it’s not about you anymore, it subsides and you can do the thing, probably how i feel too

All. The. Time. Lol - 2nd hand embarrassment is the worst

Country roooads take meeee home 🎶

I've done this. It's hard maintaining relationships when you don't want to be a burden to the other person. I feel you.

Try me, 8 YEARS later still thinking about it... Stupid brain

Sequel to unsee juice, forget juice

Noted

With MY voice?? As in, the one I have?? To USE OUT LOUD????

Good point!

Seriously! Where did they get my picture?? Every dang one of these is so relatable.

That’s my life. Because when I signed up for it I really wanted to do it lol times comes for it and I hate myself for signing up for it.

Oh yeah, totally ADHD over here