Stagefright?

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I recently had a Musical Theatre/Choir concert, and I had a solo in the MT half of it. I did fine, and wasn't shy or had any stagefright. This baffled my mom. One of the main basis for having AS is shyness, yet I can with confidence, stand in front of at least 100 people and sing by myself. Does anyone else here seem to shed AS while performing?

PS: For you MT fans, I sang "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat" from the musical "Guys and Dolls".

100% dahhhhling..... I can captivate an audience of 100s infinitely more easily than just talk to 2 or 3..... My enormous, frightening talent helps obviously, but I think its down to the fact that A. I have a script that I know and that I know noone will deviate from and B. You're in front of an amorphous, depersonalised entity rather than having to pick people off one-by-one.

Yes! And no reciprocity, no guessing games. You can't even see anybody, just a field of blackness and glaring spotlights. For all your eyes can tell, you're alone in your dark bedroom.

That's what I love abouth the stage. You can't see people in front you. The real problem was practicing in class. You can't hide behind fluorescent lights. But on stage, I'm awesome.

Plus for me it really helps to have a script or a song already memorized. Back when I still went to church, I used to do regular readings no problem. But for my speech class in college we weren't allowed to script it out, we had to work from a few notes on notecards and make up the wording of the speech on the spot. We got graded on things like making eye contact with the audience, and watching the professor who would signal us when we were about to go over our time limit. (Nearly failed the class cause of that one - couldn't think straight enough to keep words flowing and notice his hand signals at the same time.) But anyway, point being, it was a totally different story.

yep - i love performing. i always sing/dance/act/am funnier when i have an audience. even in social situations - shove me in front of a gang of people and watch me go. aen't there supposed to be several suspected-aspie actors/performers?

I used to work as a pianist. I would find it much more nerve racking talking to people in my break than playing to an audience of people.

When I was about 14-16 I think, I tried ALL of the spare time activities available. I preformed on stage in front of hundreds of people with a song with another girl, I danced with the dance group, I did comedic acting, I spoke in front of people about political and "save-the-world" issues.
I can't remember if I was nervous or not, but proably no more than the other preformers.

Yeah there are supposed to be lot's of musicians and stuff that are aspies so I guess stagefright has got nothing to do with aspies...?

I made the mistake of joining the drama club for a play in middle school once. From what I've heard, I performed all right, but it scared the bejesus out of me. I haven't gone back to acting since then.

I've never experienced stage fright, only an adrenaline rush. I performed a lot, I did ballet for thirteen years.

I did a LOT of public speaking in HS and although I was initally nervous, it seemed to disspiate quickly once I got a rythm going. Eye contact wasn't bad cause I would just scan the room quickly.

I did:

A speech on how Buckye BOys State changed my life (lies, lies, lies!! )

Two sermons (first one was good, the second one was terrible. . .)

A optimist club scholarship speech

and assorted other ones that escape my memory at the moment. . .


Oddly enough, I would have massive problems with school oral projects and would sound like this:

so the republic of rome. . .(clears throat and searches for place left off). . .was founded by remuls and. . .(Clears throat adn searches for lost place again) romus!

I don't know why, but speaking to larger crowds of my peers was always easier then delievering a oral report.

I can remember how it was when I was in 3rd grade through 5th and I was in an all deaf choir (yes, we really sang!) and how much I enjoyed singing. I was pretty anonmous in the group though, so that might have had something to do with it.

I loved to sing solos. . .sometimes I wish I joined choir in HS.

Stage fright is a non-issue for me because anytime I have ever had to do anything in front of people I either know exactly what I'm doing, or it's some spontanius thing and I just b.s. my way through it. I have gotten really good at makeing stuff up as it goes along. As long as I have two seconds to think about what I am doing it's going to be alright.

When on stage, i am perfectly comfortable. I'm not looking in anybodies eyes, i can hardly even f*****g see the audience because of the lights. And i have this comfortable knowledge that i'm an idiot and so is everyone else, so i don't mind f*****g up on stage. If you f**k up, laugh about it, maybe joke about it and move on. If you look embarised and shocked then the audience feels that and thinks worse of the f**k up than if you just rolled with it. I don't have a low self esteem, infact i am completely 100% confident about my own abilities, and when i depreciate myself, i dont feel bad about it, i joke about it.