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Social Anxiety Is...
Not all of these apply to me, but quite a few do. The one that hit me the hardest?
My entire freshman year. I ate the bad to-go food so that I could eat it in my room during lunch so that I wouldn't have to go up to the cafeteria. I went to dinner with my roommate if she was around, but other than that, it was always the to-go stuff. And on the weekends I seriously didn't leave the dorm except to grab food. Gah. I just had horrible flashbacks.
Not all of these apply to me, but quite a few do. The one that hit me the hardest?
Social anxiety is staying in your dorm room during meals instead of braving the dining hall.
My entire freshman year. I ate the bad to-go food so that I could eat it in my room during lunch so that I wouldn't have to go up to the cafeteria. I went to dinner with my roommate if she was around, but other than that, it was always the to-go stuff. And on the weekends I seriously didn't leave the dorm except to grab food. Gah. I just had horrible flashbacks.
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The dining hall thing, so much - although I actually got more antisocial as college went on. Freshman year I ate in the dining hall all the time; by senior year I never went there (that's also when I started watching Buffy!)
Even now, at work, I eat my lunch at my desk almost all the time, because I don't want to eat out alone.
My most recent trauma: when you're meeting people somewhere and you're the first one there, and then you have to stand around awkwardly by yourself. Ugh - especially at a bar, because who goes to a bar by themselves?