View Single Post
 
Old Sep 02, 2013, 10:44 PM
rosska's Avatar
rosska rosska is offline
Member
 
Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Scotland, UK
Posts: 272
Quote:
Originally Posted by IndieVisible View Post
I don't have social anxiety just general which is bad enough because I get it for no reason so I can't avoid it. I generally don't like socializing because my problem is people bore me very quickly, in minutes. After that I really don't care about them or what they have to say. Unless I'm drinking, then I become very social and afterwards usually feel stupid for some thing I did or say. What I find about so-called normal people, is they are mostly fake or shallow. They can keep talking about them most uninteresting things imaginable and get excited over nothing. That's normal I'm told. In order to fake it I have to pretend to laugh at their stupid jokes and pretend to be interested and care about their stupid stories. The only time I can do that to any degree of success is if I'm drinking. Otherwise I end up being unintentionally rude. So IMHO your not really missing out on a lot! Just a bunch of boring meaningless small talk. You would be better off just having 1 or 2 real friends and hang with them.
I laughed so hard reading this. Not because I think you should be laughed at, but because it's pretty much exactly what I think.
Alcohol is about the only way I can really 'enjoy' a social situation, but I don't like drinking because my social filters just completely disappear and I usually spend the next week or two kicking myself for saying or doing something I never would have done had I been sober. But if I'm sober, I get bored after the first few minutes and spend the rest of the time wondering if it would be rude for me to leave yet.