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[–]thethrowawayReddit refugee 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You notice how she was perfectly normal on the phone?

I think this is a great example of working yourself up over nothing. I learned at a pretty young age that nobody cares if you slip up or take a few seconds to think. Thats normal human interaction. Literally all she is doing here is working herself up over nothing (assuming this is real, I know real people that do this so).

Also, it is a self fulfilling prophecy. She could learn to be normal if she just didnt let herself act all weird, but instead shes rewarding her anxious behaviour. I find that socially anxious people end up acting weird to try to avoid social situations, which ironically ends up getting them into awkward social situations more often. Totally self fulfilling. Break the cycle.

I wish people would quit normalizing this crap. Its not healthy behaviour.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every time I slip up while talking I just jokingly say I had a stroke and the person chuckles then we move past it. No time to worry about my mouth being unable to keep up with my brain