I wish there was just some switch you could flip that turns off that panicky feeling of everyone staring at you. Haven’t found much (that’s healthy) that can do this, and it would feel like a superpower to not have that annoying weight all the time.
This is the toughest thing to master as someone with high social anxiety. If I can concentrate in the moment and everything lines up perfectly it feels amazing and free to not care about what everyone else is doing around me.
The problem is that doesn’t happen often. Anxiety usually ramps up before you can logically remind yourself about this, so it’s just a spiral of feeling overwhelmed and awkward and trying fiercely to act normal so people don’t think you’re strange.
Now people aren’t afraid of your boogeyman anymore, they’re just ready to not be price gouged for every good and service that exists in this rotten capitalist hellscape
Cracking up watching the Dem establishment freak out in real time about socialism exploding into the scene. You all had decades to do something, anything to make good on campaign promises or do some modicum of good for the people and barely lifted a fucking finger