SOCIAL ANXIETY | What it Feels Like (PERSONAL Experience With AUTISM)

Social anxiety can be crippling autism and social anxiety go hand-in-hand. Social anxiety is this overwhelming feeling of uncertainty around other people and social situations.

It can be during a social interaction like a gathering of friends or a trip to the pub or restaurant. But it can also be things like travelling to another country or getting on a bus or a train.

There are social anxiety medication you can take but I have not tired that yet. And I am not sure that these get rid of social anxiety symptoms.

Social anxiety causes lots of disruption in peoples lives and professional work, it can be quite debilitating

Social anxiety can be quiet disabling for people when they choose to not go out to do something because social anxiety is overwhelming.

By knowing what makes your social anxiety worse is the key to understanding how to deal with it better. If going to large supermarkets on busy times makes it worse and avoid them at the busy times and got the less busy times.

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[TheAspieWorld]

What do you deal with most, Social Anxiety or General Anxiety Disorder?

[raphtheartist]

I always wear my earphones while grocery shopping (or simply being outside) so I feel like I’m in a safety bubble and I forget that there are other people.

It makes me feel so protected.

[ctk]

Your description is spot on. Anxiety makes a seemly simple social situation feel like moving a mountain (naked with the flu).

[Drakeblood]

I think my social anxiety comes from more of not knowing how I appear to other people. I always worry about how my voice sounds to others, stumbling over my words, running out of things to say, not doing something that is expected of me in certain situations and looking clueless (what to do at a bank, etc.), and feeling like everyone is observing how I behave; not comprehensive in the least. Social interactions aren't terrible for me in the moment, but in the before and after I'm usually consumed by catastrophic thoughts.

[julianmarks]

Very good video. Social anxiety has prevented me from having friendships in the past. Keep up the good work!

[frkrZd]

Even the thought of going out fills me with dread.

[MeltEmber]

I feel like social anxiety is just a result of prolonged and unsuccessful masking.

[davidlanier]

Agoraphobia can happen in a closed in situation. Most people think of agoraphobia as being afraid to go outside, but it's also a fear of being trapped in maybe like a classroom situation or a crowded area. I use to get such high anxiety in line at a store to pay for my stuff. I would almost pass out in that situation. I don't know why, but I've gotten better at it, but it's not completely gone. Our ASD and anxiety and other issues can change some over time. Excellent video on social anxiety. I still have problems doing stuff like signing my name in front of people.

[Alizardlovesyou]

Oh man, small talk is the hardest! So much effort for so little meaning. I do like feeling brave though, and I'm always getting better at it.

[charliepollard]

I start feeling really dizzy and I start physically shaking. It’s like everything around me starts closing in on me.

[Leena]

I've been diagnosed with social anxiety long before even considering I might have ASD. I definately try to do my shopping etc in the quiet hours, and unfortunately have failed to accomplish quite a few things in life because of the overwhelming anxiety. My coping mechanism is to plan everything - it's guaranteed that when the anxiety hits me, I won't be able to think anything but what's making me anxious, but if I have a plan to follow, I can get through these situations. A shopping list, a list of things to do (and in which order), my name, address, phone number written down for making phonecalls. This works quite well, but all the situations with unknown variables are the ones that I can't handle. And let's just say, everything involving socializing has a lot of unknown variables! 😂

[grantarnold]

I have terrible social anxiety so in order to assimilate in social situations I use alcohol but I'm trying to get away from that because addiction runs in my family. I've never been diagnosed with autism but after watching your videos as well as others, a lot of things are beginning to make sense.

[origrockart]

I greatly appreciate the time you took to share what it can often feel like to be in different situations when you have anxiety. I’ve been at many levels with my anxiety; from being unable yo leave home without my parents when I was younger, to a brief few years when I could do almost anything and would even intentionally put myself into situations that would have caused massive anxiety. I’m now 42 a single father of two sons that live with me every other week and I know I have to find a better way forward. For the sake of myself but more importantly, for my sons. Thank you again for sharing, wishing you all the best 🙏

[MissMeganBeckett]

Having other people explain how something might feel to you, asking if you’ve ever felt that way, and then describing the definition of a condition is really useful for me because I don’t know how to describe feelings a lot of the time. I’m over 30 but I only recently figured out that a feeling I had been having off and on for years now was actually a panic attacks, my headaches were actually migraines, and the reason I couldn’t finish school was because of a burnout. I found these from different sources, my psychologist and my psychiatrist, my mom with confirmation from my doctor, and YouTube. It feels better to be able to accurately describe something in a way that other people will understand without being misunderstood because I don’t have the word to describe a feeling. Forgot to add I also have social anxiety, diagnosis from high school. 13:47 I also have the same feeling you are describing about concerts movies busy streets crowded rooms loud noises restaurants etc. Cbd gummies work for me to, my psychologist is also working with me on the breathing exercises and grounding techniques.

[YEIYEI]

Thank you for your honesty my son gets so overwhelmed with crowds is overloading he runs and hides, people believed he is just being disobedient but when you are in the spectrum just little things trigger you, I always ask him but he can't explain himself the feeling, Thank you for you inside.

[aaronhickton]

Thank you for these videos im currently suffering with anxiety but your videos have calmed me down and ive started going out now and stopped worrying keep uploading my hero❤

[meganlovesdisneyandcrafts]

YUP, Exactly how i It’s awful 😞. Going on a massive big trip with the family in a week. It’s for 10 days and thankfully my parents understand and told me to let them know when i need a break. I really really want to have a good time, hoping my brain decides to cooperate... at least a little.

[grams]

My 17-year-old grandson is Autistic and has sensory issues. Watching your video was very good at helping me understand him better. You are such a fast talker that I felt some sensory overload myself. I mean that in the most respectful way. 💕😉

[howardlanus]

I'm on the spectrum, and I can tell that I have significant social anxiety. Whenever I go to a party or an event I'm freaking out on the inside, even as I seem calm and collected outside. This is because I am highly sensitive emotionally and I don't always read social cues correctly, so if I make a mistake, I get blown up and it hurts a lot. I see people as emotional time bombs that are always close to exploding, but you never know what will blow them up or how close they are to detonating, until it's too late to fix the damage. Part of that is that I feel that way myself, and I don't know how to communicate my feelings in a manner that people will take seriously.

[gailrohleder]

Thank you Dan for explaining this so well. This is exactly how I feel.