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Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:07:08 No.33187873 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>33187891 >>33187978 >>33187986 >>33188002 >>33188799

>tfw social anxiety
>tfw join my local pokemon go fb raiding group
>tfw starting to organize a few legendary raids even though scared shitless posting pubicly
>tfw going and people actually show up
>tfw actually make small talk to people
>tfw after a few raids people remember me and actually say hi
>tfw learning social skills with pokemon go and overcoming social anxiety

Feeeeelllsss sooooo good man

Anyone else have similar experiences?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:07:50 No.33187878 Report

Quoted By: >>33187941

No. I'm still stuck at your first point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:09:33 No.33187891 Report

Quoted By: >>33187941

>>33187873
Considering this is the closest I get to socializing during the day, no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:09:38 No.33187892 Report

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die normie

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:15:24 No.33187941 Report

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>>33187878
>>33187891
this. I'd kill myself before doing something like OP. I guess it affects some people more than others. No way I'd do that and end up doing something embarrassing and act autistic and then have to see those same people again in my neighborhood.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:19:55 No.33187978 Report

Quoted By: >>33188602

>>33187873

Have you ever like something, and then meet people that like that same thing, but are super loud and obnoxious about their love for it?

Making you realize that what you like is indeed cringy, especially in a public setting.

Thats how I feel about pokemon go players.

I collect the cards, play the games, but hate having to deal with ya'll. Same thing with anime.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:20:59 No.33187986 Report

Quoted By: >>33188015 >>33188230

>>33187873
>find out uni has pokemon group
>go to check it out
>find out it mainly consists of a prostitute and her clients after the prostitute offers her services to me the newcomer
>never go back
>tfw this is so bizarre to process already know people will think 'things that never happened'

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:23:34 No.33188002 Report

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>>33187873
nice blog post, upvoted

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:25:12 No.33188015 Report

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>>33187986
Wat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 02:52:52 No.33188230 Report

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>>33187986
xD

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 03:58:50 No.33188602 Report

Quoted By: >>33188622

>>33187978

Well theres a whole diverse group of people that play pogo. I avoid the cringy autistic neckbeard types like the plague. But the more 'normie' people are pretty comfy. Like the elderly couples that play are generally friendly and so are alot of the parents and older players.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 04:01:20 No.33188622 Report

Quoted By: >>33188859

>>33188602
>not avoiding normies

you sound like an exceptionally boring person

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Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 04:26:29 No.33188799 Report

Quoted By: >>33188865

>>33187873
Back when i was in high school I thought I suffered from severe social anexity (literally had no friends) until I decided to come to a "Pokemon Day" themed party that was being organised in my area (they were giving out Darkrai and Celebi IIRC). After some initial shyness, I opened up like a little kid. I suddenly had no problems approaching people just like that and talking about Pokemon, vidya, and even simple life problems (in that order). I stayed well until midnight and felt completely refreshed after I went home, like all those years I lost not socialising with people suddenly disappeared overnight. Made lots of new friendships as well, some of which I still mantain to this day.

That was the day I realised it's not me who was being socially anxious all this time, it's normalfags who are boring as fuck to interact with. If you have problems making friendships and generally talking to people (and lets be honest, people you meet every day are 99% normies) I strongly recommend you find a Nintendo/Pokemon meeting group in your area (or really anything else you're interested in and is inherently autistic in nature) on sites like facebook and see how you do. It did wonders to my self esteem, so did the OP apperentely.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 04:36:03 No.33188859 Report

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>>33188622

Yeah, because those fat neckbeard pogo players that talk about movesets, ivs and dps in public lead so much more interesting lives kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 04:37:11 No.33188865 Report

Quoted By: >>33189151

>>33188799

That's pretty motivating anon! Do you still have social anxiety to this day? Or has it just died down alot more since you had that epiphany?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Aug 2017 05:27:11 No.33189151 Report

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>>33188865
To an extent, yes. I still hate interacting with "normal" people but thanks to those meetings I learned how to fake being interested in what they say (which later turned out to be godsend on job interviews) and even make pretend-small talks. On the other hand I can usually quickly find common ground with people that are actually passionate about something. Like, I don't watch anime and have little interest in starting now, but I can sit and listen to people talking about it and don't feel like killing myself out of boredom.

Another valuable thing I learned is that most people that are passionate about autistic things like me reside in the IT/engineering field. It inspired me to start studying IT myself (currently aiming to become a database programmer) even though I hated maths my whole life. I'm don't even care about higher wage at this point (though it's definitely nice) I just want to be around people that I have at least something in common with.

Sometimes I think what would happen if I didn't go to that Pokemon event that day and honestly I'm a little scared. I actually initially wanted to skip the event entirely due to my then-aversion to meeting real life people, but I really wanted that Darkrai and Celebi lol

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