Originally Posted by
Memory
Uh..... Uh..... IDK, I mean, I have social anxiety, which is like, a HUGE wall for me to overcome whenever I have to face situations where I have to become, in some level, familiar with others, and it is something that dates back from even elementary school for me, my parents would have to order me to talk to others in school, and make me report every day how much social interaction, and if I actually got to meet someone new that day, because it's hard for me to do it on my own, and my parents had serious worries that I would become isolated in school, and it didn't help that I changed schools often, so I had to keep on doing that over and over, and I mean, I guess the best way, or at least the best way I could find out, is to just to put on a character, like a persona, and jump onto talking about something, anything, IDK, just ignore your fear and do it, since it's not you who's talking, it's your character, your persona. I mean, it doesn't always work, but it is like, better than anything else I've tried.
But I mean, IDK how close do you mean by friends. Because I mean, this way, you do sort of end up sort of distant from them, anyways, because it's not you, after all, but, I mean, I guess that, if you stay longer around those people, you end up relaxing around them, and then you can become closer..... Or end up losing them. :-/ But I guess that's just part of the whole thing, anyways.