Thought this community could use some activity so…!
Here’s mine: I wish every person I socialised with would know that I sometimes get too overwhelmed and could use someone coming up with an escape plan . When I’m especially anxious I have a hard time leaving places or declining things, so I always wished I could just have someone notice and get me out of there.
You know like when as a kid you don’t want to go over a friend’s house and you have your parent pretend you’re not allowed, to get you out of it.
I ended up finding a friend who knew I needed that little bit of help sometimes and it made social events SO much easier because I knew if I got overwhelmed I could pull them aside and be all HALP. and they’d come up with an excuse for us to dip to save me the embarrassment. But with other friends I always felt awkward about asking them, so never did.
What about you guys? What’s something you wish your non-anxious friends would do or know about you?
From the other side of the coin, I love it when friends, colleagues and acquaintances tell me of their anxiousness in a social setting, because that means I can set aside any discomfort of my own and step up for them.
Unfortunately people need to tell me verbally, because I (and people in general) suck at reading signals unless we’ve already established some.
What’s the difference between the friend who knows and the friends who doesn’t know?
