“My Anxiety Has A Loophole”: 50 Memes About Social Anxiety That Explain How Certain Minds Work

That’s sweet of her! You raised a lovely person. It must be kind of fun too, for you-because you don’t know what you’re getting but you know it’s going to be tasty!

I just order on the app.

Wait guys, i don’t understand why ppl r nervous abt subway? R the ppl rly rude bcs i have never been there

My daughter did this for me for years. Last year I ordered my very own subway on my own and it felt scary but awesome. I'm glad you have a caring child too xxx

You should try what used to be called the melt. Now it Is the American? Bacon ham turkey cheese with oil and mayo. Cold sandwich with the bacon hot. So good.

I avoided Panera forever because I don't like going in new places and trying to figure out how to order, etc. Finally made myself do it but still feel awkward and self conscious anywhere like that by myself. Instructions from a kind soul would be great!

I give a list of what I want to my partner and he buys it for me, I can't deal with Subways as well! But he can deal with the cashiers' speed at Aldi and I love it, in and out in 15 min!

Yet

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The fact that your username is Shark Lady but that you’re too much of a nervous wreck to order a sandwich feel @ odds with each other. 🧐🤔😊

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/dw8f8c/i_have_very_bad_anxiety_and_would_like_to_try/

If you Google how to order subway for anxiety, it's the first link that pops up

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Yet it’s scary and anxiety producing for us oldies who have no idea how the heck to use them.

Its hard for everyone Astrius. I'm fairly extroverted, but after the initial meet, I get anxious and self-conscious. How often do I contact my new potential friend? Am I bothering them?... What actions are taking so much effort? I'd imagine many of us feel the same way. Let's talk it out- you have an international community of sympathy, like-kind experiences, advice to draw from. And don't forget, those of us on the internet are real people. Friendships here are as real as in person.

Same here! I'm an OCD diagnosed introvert and the ones I know accepting of me and my quirks are my loved ones. But meeting somebody new who doesn't judge me is nearly impossible ( I meant I'm not a diagnosed introvert.. but an introvert with diagnosed OCD lol)

They're not natural for me either. People like and appreciate what I do professionally, but in real life I have no friends. There. I said it.

Go online, try to make virtual friends 1st, anonimity might give you a bit of self confidence and might ease up your stress of talking to a stranger, basically like you're doing here. But in a chat Room for instances.

I keep getting adopted by extroverts.

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Do you want to be my friend? Here’s a cookie 🍪

Same. Just a thought..have you been tested for Asperger?

I'll be your friend! I am a socially awkward extrovert!

Same my guy

Same 😪

Me six, please

I’ll be a friend :]

me six!

I'm one of those extroverts that gently pull introverts in... I'll be your friend, Astrius. :)

Are you speaking purely about anxiety, or is there more to it than that?

Perhaps you're over thinking it, and should let it just happen?

I'll be your friend Astrius.

I'm so sorry that friend acts that way... 2 friends is not a bad count tbh. If you can rely on them tho. Have you tried talking to that one friend about what you feel? Maybe they don't realize it and don't mean it that way but have their own issues that get in the way sometimes? ☺️ I only have 2 friends myself, my one best friend and her bf actually but luckily he became a real friend to. One good friend goes a long way and is often better than several mediocre friends I think 🤗

Same for me. To the point I stupidly repeat myself even when I don't need to as I don't think people have listened. I'm working on that though!! My family even stepped over me when I partially fainted once as a teen - I was aware but couldn't do anything to get up. My mother claimed she thought I was 'messing about' though I'd never slid down the kitchen wall and sat on the floor before and had a history of fainting... The other day I was in a group of ladies chatting and one started talking (one of the quieter in the group) and got cut off by the others. When they stopped I made sure to go back to her and say 'you were just about to say something' and gave her that chance to talk. People like us have to make sure we catch it when it happens to others!!

Same. Youngest of 4 and never heard. Hits home

Amen sister xx

I don't know you but I want to applaud you for doing so! This surely made a huge difference in his day and his mother's. 🤗🥰👌🏻

I always do this with tests! I usually test quickly, but then i panic because if i turn it in first but got a bunch of questions wrong the teacher will think I rushed or messed it up on purpose, so i wait until a few other people have finished to turn it in.

HOLY JEEZ I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST ME!

Or when you finish a test before everyone else but wait for someone else to say they’ve finished so you know it’s ok to finish

Oh my, this brings back memories from early 2000s when I was taking a really really major exam. I had actually already taken the exam and passed it, but wanted to retake it to try to get a better grade. The rules were very strict: the time for the exam was 9-15 and you could not leave the auditorium before 12. When you were finished and left, you had to hand ALL your sheets to the exam supervisors, not just the sheets with the questions and your answers but also the empty sheets and those you had used for drafting your answers. So the exam began, and right away I realised I can't do it. But I can't leave before 12! And I can't just sit there doing nothing because other candidates can see I'm not writing anything (as if anyone would pay any attention...) and they'll see how stupid I am! So I spent three hours writing whatever nonsense came to my mind. Mainly about hating myself and what a failure I am, all while trying not to cry or have a panic attack. 1/2

Especially if you managed to finish it quickly.

See this doesn't bother me so I try to be the first person to ask a question or go to the bathroom so that other people can go.

I do this too

no but also being a perfectionist and wanting to prove yourself so rushing to be the first to finish only to not get up because your nervous

omg i didnt know anyone else did this!