workshop anxiety

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Dont really know where to put my question.

I find that I am not applying for autism workshops, because I had a bad experience last September. Fantastic workshop, but I had no idea how those things operate, and were they ever a right in your face type workshop.

Tell us 'what makes you interesting?' I just panicked and tried to leave.
I was there for my daughter but i myself have some areas of anxiety. Telling strangers about my story is one of them.

I am seeing in my email other workshops. Is it unreasonable if I call ahead of time and ask how this workshop is run. The last one was SO interactive.

Surely they can't all be like that one.

thanks for reading

Something wrong here - your message is posting multiple times in a row. If you are putting multiple messages on one thread, go into your existing message and reply to it.

If I'm telling you something you know already, apologies.

Anyway, about your post, you need to maybe just take it a bit slower. Take baby steps. In my case, I couldn't participate in university tutorial groups involving 4-5 people (I couldn't talk on phones at all as well). Nowadays (30 or more years later) I speak to groups of up to 400 people. I still get nervous on every occasion but I can do it succesfully. I can assure you I didn't go from where I was 30 years ago to where I am now in one giant leap.