how many people here have a Social Phobia

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I dont particularly have a Social Phobia, i do get anxious around people because i dont know what to say, but i get over it once i become comfterble, im more anxious to get rejected again because ive faced soo much rejection in my life time, i try to learn from it but its kinda hard.

Do you have a Social Phobia

I am not really afraid of rejection, I am afraid of yet more bullying from the human race.

They have beat me, raped me, emotional and psychologically abused me, gossiped about me with made up lies to the point that no one wants to socialise with me not because of something I did but because of things other people have said and now people only talk to me because they pity me because I have had a rough time. It starts out because I am too quiet or not good at knowing how to behave socially and spreads like wild fire from there.

People blame me but I blame the human tendency to like to cause trouble and create drama. A boring mundane explanation such as 'oh I am sorry I misread what you were trying to imply with your body language' is not good enough for most individual who I think are probably bored with their existence and very unhappy. They have to turn into a whole big social fuss by making 26 hundred assumptions about you, pointing their finger and accusing you of:

Trouble making (see below)
Doing it on purpose (every one can read social cues right? so if you cant you are lying and doing it to cause trouble?)
Being mentally ill (Because you cried in public...)
Being dangerous, a potential criminal, potentially violent (because you spoke too loudly by mistake and smiled in the wrong place)
Being an addict (because you had a few too many pints of lager once or twice)

I don't want pity, I want someone to see who I am and actually like me, the person, not a label I was given or an event that happened to me years ago or even recently.

No one sees the person. So I stay isolated and alone.

I am sick of their drama.

All I want to do is enjoy traveling, riding buses and learning to play piano. I had hoped to find a companion to enjoy life with along the way but as I can't have the latter and my quiet life as well, I will choose social isolation and a solitary existence instead.

There is too much joy to be had out in the world, so many fascinating things for me to learn about. I don't have time for made up human dramas.

Its not that I can't care about people and their lives, I don't care for their trouble making, unnecessary arguments and gossip anymore.

I used to but I'm slowly getting over it with counseling. I don't think I will ever fully get over it though.

I have been wondering about that for a while. The diagnosis of social phobia seems to imply that you are afraid and anxious of one (or several) specific social situation (like being in a meeting, making a speech, etc.) Although I easily experience much anxiety in social contexts, it is not, strictly speaking, systematic and it is not linked to specific social situations I can identify. It is more than any social occasion feels a bit like being on a rollercoaster for me : it can be pleasant, it can be terrible, it can randomly change at any time, and I have absolutely no control over it. Because of that, social situations themselves make me more afraid and helpless than "anxious" (for the same reason that you don't really have any time to be "anxious" in a fight or in similar life-and-death situations). Anxiety is negative thinking about something that hasn't happened (yet) ; I am anxious before social situations because I am afraid I won't be good enough, and I am anxious during social situations because of the prospect of having to think over them and spend much time and energy analysing them afterwards only to discover all the things I have failed and missed.

I have more of an irrational social phobia. Although I can sit here and say it's irrational, it's still hard to overcome, and the irrational thoughts take over and seem so real. Admitting something is irrational does not mean it's no longer irrational, although it can be treated with the right help (which requires a LOT of help in my situation, and I'm still finding the right help for me, through trial and error).

I'm not very confident in myself. I get embarrassed easily, I regret things, I overthink and overanalyze things, I am very emotionally sensitive with a bad ego, and I am also shy and timid. So no wonder I have social phobia. And it is social phobia. I think even if the Asperger's could be cured (just saying), I would still have problems socially and emotionally if the social phobia was left. Well, I know the Asperger's and the social phobia kind of overlap, so it's hard to recognise where the social phobia begins and where the Asperger's ends (and vice versa). But I do know that I have social phobia.

I am too aware of myself too, which can also be a problem. It is a shameful problem, especially when I start feeling and acting timid. It doesn't get me anywhere.

I only need to care about the persons my survival depends on. I have to please them to some degree. This is what may bring about bad confidence.

I do not give s**t about people my survival does not depend on. If they treat me well, I treat them well. If they treat me badly, I treat them badly. Fair deal. I expect people to treat me badly, so the best way is to keep things formal so as to not to get too close and avoid confrontation. This is difficult because people often keep pushing to get closer. They feel very uncomfortable if I speak too formally. Rather keeping it formal than them bullying me, where I have to respond with a serious verbal attack, which is the only thing that can get them to stop. Social people do not like when it gets serious, because that means the group bonds are getting looser.

I guess. I mean if someone were to walk up to me in the store when I was with my mom.
Lets say it is a sweet old lady, and she leaned forward and said, "hello there young man what's your name?"
I would back away from her and not say anything. I might even hide behind my mom.

i do not have a social phobia.
i tend to be reasonably bossy in a way that i have no control over.
i will tell people what i want them to do if they look at me.

an example was today when i was driving back home from katoomba. i was in a slow moving queue that was heading toward a set of traffic lights that turned green for very short amounts of time.

there was a woman in a range rover that wanted to go into a carpark, and i signaled to her that i was prepared to allow her access to where she wanted to go, and i backed up and she still did not trust me and she refrained from accessing the car park that she wanted to be in, so i forgot about her and i moved foreward thus preventing her from getting into the carpark until i was gone.

i have no idea why another persons mindset could affect the ideas of those who feel that other peoples thoughts are more important than their own thoughts.

i am me and i have never been anyone else. i like being me, and i will not surrender any part of my mental orientation to the advice of any others who claim superiority over me.

I don't classify my social anxiety as social phobia.

I have a social phobia/anxiety.