• Gerudo@lemm.ee
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    28 days ago

    You must not have anxiety. It is almost debilitating sometimes for me to be on the phone. Text or email? No problem. In person, eh depends on how much of my social battery is left, but I can make it work most of the time.

    But something about phone calls just doesn’t jive with me. I am at minimum pacing a marathon while on the phone.

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      27 days ago

      i don’t have anxiety. i have every reason to have anxiety. i was an only child in a terrible school system with hyper religious parents at a time when the world was becoming more and more progressive, but you know what? i reached out to the people who i admired and made a human connection with them and i got over it, just like almost anyone else can.

      and i’m a better person for it. if i had stayed in that shell, i probably would be severely depressed or dead by now.