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Anonymous asked:

Ughhhh social anxiety is the worst. You either force yourself to go to things knowing you'll spend the entire time anxious and stressing about people judging you or doing or saying something stupid or don't go but then feel guiltridden for lying/giving some lame ass excuse to get out of plans or worrying that people are judging and thinking badly of you for not going. Ughh but anyway as a sidenote I have just treated myself to the first book in the murderbot series to distract myself lmao 😀

Social anxiety is the fucking worst. I agree wholeheartedly with you nonny. I hate it. It's exhausting and so fucking stressful. I'm always worried about what I'm wearing or how I'm moving or what I'm saying or where I'm going. I have yet to go somewhere (like an event or gathering) and not thought "what if you have the wrong day/time? what if you weren't actually invited? what if you get there and no one is there? And yes that forcing yourself to go but feeling guilty if you stay thing? THE WORST! I hate it so much. I have to constantly remind myself with my historical reenactments that I will fun once I get there and that these people are my friends and like me. It's the only way I can get myself to go. It sucks. So yeah nonny I'm right there with ya.

Also, YAAAAS to buying the first Murderbot book!!! I hope you liked it!!! Did you like it? I'm reading book 6 right now and my god I LOVE this series so freaking much!! And I took people's advice and I'm reading book 6 before book 5 for timeline reasons.

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Anonymous asked:

hi there, wonderful Ace! I really adore your blog and all of your stunning gif sets 🤗. I was wondering if you knew of any characters (preferably male) with social anxiety? Just basically hoping to find some good representation

HI there! Thank you so much! You're so sweet!

Oh man as someone with social anxiety I am always on the lookout for characters with social anxiety. I don't know of a lot of them unfortunately. Especially good rep. And characters that actually have social anxiety and aren't just introverted. Here are some characters that I do know of:

Reginald Barclay from Star Trek Voyager is my absolute favorite. I adore him so much and I see so much of my own social anxiety in him. I mean this scene here, THAT'S ME! I love Barclay so much.

Jordan Kent from Superman & Lois supposedly has social anxiety according to the first episode but honestly we never see it. Unless it shows up in season 3 cause I haven't watched season 3. But seasons 1 and 2 didn't showcase or even have it at all beyond a line here and there and one flashback of him having a panic attack in his room in the pilot episode. So take that with a grain of salt. It annoys me so much. It could have been so good but the show just seemed to forget that they established this plot point.

Julianne Sims from Breakout Kings, Komi from Komi Can't Communicate, and Elliot from Mr. Robot have social anxiety from what I've read but I cannot personally attest to it as I have not seen any of these shows. I definitely want to watch Breakout Kings now though because it looks like Julianne is pretty good rep and I like Brooke Nevin.

That's all I got unfortunately. If anyone has more please share!

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