I hate introducing myself

[Annmarie Edward]

Well, especially in front of crowd..

"Tell us something about yourself" This kind of thing freaks me out and I intentionally make it as short as possible while others could go on and on.

Anyone has this problem ?

 

[Brokenx]

Yeah, hate it.
But i avoid that kinda thing.

 

[gettingbetter]

Well, especially in front of crowd..

"Tell us something about yourself" This kind of thing freaks me out and I intentionally make it as short as possible while others could go on and on.

Anyone has this problem ?

That, aswell as whenever anyone has a birthday and you have to sing the birthday song. Its pressure to be part of things. What can we say? I usually just mumble a few generic facts and hope that what i've said is "good enough".

 

[SociallyAwkwardAndShy]

I hate having to stand up and introduce myself after someone who was really interesting and made people laugh went before me. I'm like how can i live up to that. So i just do the quick mumble of my name age where I'm from and that i like books... just to get the oh that's nice and then the person after me goes and there just as interesting as the person before me.

 

[userremoved]

I would rather talk about anything else in front of a group then about myself. I stand up and all of a sudden I can't even remember where I was born. Yeah it sucks.

 

[Bullied Anonymous]

Introductions are very stressful. I get a little nervous introducing in a small class. When there are more than 25 kids I probably won't even speak or I'd do like you, try to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Lately, I've been making an effort to speak (which is way out of my comfort zone ,but I think if I do this it might decrease my fear of social situations.)

 

[Emily_G]

I hate introducing myself to anyone in any situation. "Emily" is such a hard word for me to say.

 

[mrb]

not the best thing im good at , i must admit , i hate all that stuff

 

[Bemzy]

I would rather talk about anything else in front of a group then about myself. I stand up and all of a sudden I can't even remember where I was born. Yeah it sucks.

Hahaha I had the same problem

 

[Psychedelicious]

Sunshine Pockets

I like it better when other people do it for you! I hate telling people what your name is even. I Think I just hate saying anything about myself, because there's really isn't anything to say at all.

 

[philly2bits]

Re: Sunshine Pockets

I like it better when other people do it for you! I hate telling people what your name is even. I Think I just hate saying anything about myself, because there's really isn't anything to say at all.

I feel this way too. I find it much easier if someone I already know introduces me to a stranger in a social situation. It feels more polite to me also. Instead of me going up to a stranger and possible being annoying to them, it seems better to have a mutual person we both know to introduce us.

 

[Emily_G]

In the past I've asked hubby to introduce me. "Hi I'm Jeremy and this is my wife, Emily." I hate hate hate that I ask him to do that...I should be able to do it myself and just get over the fact that some people can't understand what my name is cause I stutter so badly on it!!!

 

[Day_Tripper]

I hate introducing myself to people, and I hate saying goodbye just as much. I feel like I have to robotically summarize what a good time I had seeing them, even if we barely talked.

 

[Elenwen]

I think a lot of people with social anxiety have this problem because, not only is it talking in front of a group, but we're talking about ourselves, which seems to be a topic most of us avoid.

I hate introducing myself to a single person because of what philly2bits said--I'm afraid I'm wasting their time or irritating them. And when it comes to introducing myself in big groups, like the OP is saying, I hate it because I stutter over my name (like Emily) and then feel like no matter what I'm saying (even if it's a boring fact, like, "I was born in California"), people will think I'm bragging.

 

[groovy]

One of the absolute worst things about being alive, lol. I ESPECIALLY HATE starting a new class where you don't know anybody, and everyone has to introduce themselves

Waiting for your turn is like waiting to be hanged. That sense of dread.. ughh.. well I'd compare it to just about any other public speaking task. haha and when it IS my turn.. god, I die every time.

PLUS, I hate the sound of my name coming from my own mouth. Terrified of it... sounds like some forbidden, disgusting, evil, embarrassing, alien word. Avoid at all costs!! lol

 

[vj288]

One of the absolute worst things about being alive, lol. I ESPECIALLY HATE starting a new class where you don't know anybody, and everyone has to introduce themselves

Waiting for your turn is like waiting to be hanged. That sense of dread.. ughh.. well I'd compare it to just about any other public speaking task. haha and when it IS my turn.. god, I die every time.

PLUS, I hate the sound of my name coming from my own mouth. Terrified of it... sounds like some forbidden, disgusting, evil, embarrassing, alien word. Avoid at all costs!! lol

Yeah, exactly! I hate it when you have to say something interesting about yourself to, it makes it worse than it already is.

 

[Emma03]

Yeah, exactly! I hate it when you have to say something interesting about yourself to, it makes it worse than it already is.

I HATE this!! I never have anything interesting to say about myself and it always sounds like everybody else is so amazing! I really really dislike introductions...

 

[sevenroses]

Unfortunately I have to attend a staff meeting on Monday and we always had to introduce ourselves whenever there is a new coworker. I'm not really looking forward to it. :: Hope it goes well though.

 

[LovelyAmor]

I hate introducing myself to anyone in any situation. "Emily" is such a hard word for me to say.

I have the exact same problem! I don't understand what this is! I have FINALLY perfected saying my FIRST name but then when they say "And your last name?" Oh gawd...So im like Ayodele! Then im like A-A-A-A-yinmodu. Hahaha! Then im mentally beating myself up for doing that! A professor in a lab that I had to go to asked me how to pronounce my name IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS. And again..I said my first, but when I started to say the last...ugh!

I went to this political type "tea-party" reception/banquet thing last night at my university to help me break out of my shell (which is COMPLETELY out of my current character). I did ok with saying everything else when I was asking questions about internships and other "blah's". But my name? That's funny. It still went surprisingly well though! I didn't fall when I got up to get some food, I didn't keep looking at people every 5 seconds to see if they were looking at me, and I wasn't uncomfortable eating in front of those people! I must admit that I was very intimidated because there were "important" people there but after I left I felt important too!

And I don't like introducing myself or saying something about myself in front of people either. That's a total and complete disaster.

But anyway I feel like I am an attractive female and from looking at me people don't think that I am shy or that I would be nervous in social situations. I'm really trying because this is my sophomore year in college and I will be d*mned if I spend the rest of it being a social failure! Hmph! ​

 

[Emma03]

Unfortunately I have to attend a staff meeting on Monday and we always had to introduce ourselves whenever there is a new coworker. I'm not really looking forward to it. :: Hope it goes well though.

I never looked forward to that either. But, it would be worse if you were the new employee, right? Good luck!