PM_Skunk

I may be late to the party, but I’m curious about your thoughts.

I generally have really bad social anxiety, but surprisingly I’m a natural public speaker, enough so that I do it for a living now. My anxiety kicks in when I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing, so as a speaker I’m calm and utterly devoid of stage fright. Once I’m done, though, and have no role left to serve, the anxiety comes crushing in.

People who watch me speak assume I’m this super-extroverted person, and get offended that I don’t want to go out for drinks or dinner or whatever with them afterward. The idea of doing so terrifies me.

Is that something you’ve seen before? I feel kinda like the only socially anxious introvert that acts this way. Also, any thoughts on conquering the after-party anxiety?

Scale is tough to see from the tracker. Are the teams you're racing against in view at any point, or is it mostly just you and the ocean?

Ironically, a worst case scenario literally just happened. I finished MCing an event, and everyone just went out for drinks. I went with for a while, and my cohost just got furious with me for sitting by myself.

Kinda funny timing, but now I’m an anxiety ball.

This is the very question I wanted to see an answer to!

...you know, if the AMA ever gets off the ground