Personal Narrative: Social Anxiety

Social anxiety

All my life since I can remember I've been considered shy by friends and family. I knew that I was not the most talkative kid and got nervous a lot ,but I had my many reasons. I've always hated having attention on me and feel like throwing up every time I've been around a lot of people. Most times I avoid being in public places as much as I can. Growing up though it was hard to avoid them because of people around me not understanding me or not wanting to understand me.

I always remember being asked to go speak in front of the class or read out loud in school. It was the worse fear of my life. I felt like I was going to die, my heart would start racing and I would feel my whole body shaking. When I tell people how I feel in

There's a certain point to where being shy isn't just being shy anymore ,but something serious. Although social anxiety is something people think is a made up disorder it really isn't. According to the Social Anxiety Institute having social anxiety means the “fear of interaction with other people that brings out self consciousness,feelings of being negatively judged and evaluated, and as a result leads to avoidance”. To me that's exactly what people around me consider as shy. Most disorders are never taken serious unless the person has that certain disorder.I know my family thinks i'm stubborn , lazy or plain mean when I don't want to go

I don’t really know why, but that doesn't make it a good thing. For it to be a more common thing might help others understand it a bit more and help them gain some more knowledge of social anxiety. Instead of having more children have to feel like they aren't being understood. A lot of parents just give medication to their kids to try and help them deal with it, but don't really try hard to understand there kids and what they go through, Medication isn't bad, but it's not the only thing we can do to get over social