Some personal examples that come to mind are:

  • Being late for work because I heard the people in the apartment next to me leave and I waited five minutes so I wouldn’t have to share the elevator

  • Cleaning my house for two hours before strategically placing items I can talk about just so I can have a friend of multiple years over and after they left replaying things I said to make sure I didn’t say anything embarrassing

  • Not being able to look my Tinder date in the eyes even though we’ve been talking for a month and we had planned to have relations that evening

  • Spending $200 on a sweater at a craft market because I worked up the courage to ask the price and couldn’t bring myself to say no thanks

  • Forgetting something I needed at a store and just leaving because I didn’t want to face the cashier

They’re all things that are silly in hindsight that I later realised the average person likely wouldn’t have done. I know no one would have really cared in these situations.

Just curious what stories people have.

  • Buglefingers
    1•2 months ago

    My ability to recognize my emotions, like anxiety is frighteningly low. I first learned how to detect it because a medication gave me a panic attack.

    Some hindsight things I could’ve recognized and some current ones: I feared gatherings,

    After getting my driving license I did not want to drive by myself,

    eating dinner with my family always felt awkward,

    Extreme self awareness of all my actions and interactions,

    Inability to randomly interact with strangers,

    can’t use urinals unless I’m alone,

    have been spending the past 2 weeks building the courage to ask HR about schooling this fall.