Speaking in front of others

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Whenever I am being called on in class to speak I either get really hot and start sweating or get really cold and start stammering my words. I was wondering how your anxiety affects your body.

Same as you. You're not alone. There's lots of videos at this website to boost your confidence in front of people. The important thing is not to give up trying. Keep practicing your voice in front of people. The more you practice the better you get and the less anxious you become. Also, if you practice a lot and people appreciate your performance in front of the classroom, you get a great buzz with yourself when you sit down. You will find that most people are very forgiving if you slip up and want you to succeed.

Same here. Especially when it's impromptu, I feel the energies of the crowd drown me to death. Or when I'm being judged in front or around critics, I'd feel shattering. But like when it's our speech communications class, at first I was just stooping when reciting in front but later on I learned to look at them with confidence and bravery and deliver a good piece. But occasionally I'm still experiencing it.

Maybe it's because of the fight-or-flight response our body gets when triggered with such stimuli.

This is not just a AS thing as many NTs are afraid of this too. It is actually polled as the #1 fear in America.

For this, I picked an inanimate object in the back of the room and focused on that. (Or a blank space on the back wall of no objects were available). And be well-prepared in the content. Doing that helped me get through the required public-speaking course in college and i was more relaxed than in a personal conversation as i had the control on what i was saying. But i had trouble is one speech where the class was told there would be follow-up questions after the speech was concluded.

actually it's not too hard for me to speak or perform in front of people, my main problem socially is initiating interactions or going up to people and speaking to them, when someone does something like call on me in class then the interaction is already started for me and i usually just have to say something simple like the answer to a question, so it's not that hard.

I'd be interested in those videos, I saw a section for videos here but couldn't see any related. May someone can link them?