Dumbest thing you've ever done because of SA

[EscapeArtist]

For instance:
I was skipping school (already stupid) and popping back home to check if my mom's car was gone yet. I kept going back and forth and the neighbor had been watching me as he worked on his garden... I felt like I was being suspicious so even after I knew she would be gone, I stayed outside in the cold for 2 hours until he went inside before entering my house. I thought he'd think I was a robber.

I've been locked out of the house many times, too afraid to take my sister's lower-window screen off (which isn't even really on the window, just sitting against the window) and crawl through for the same reason. Gosh darn neighbors!

I went into a supermarket when I was camping, It was later at night and we needed one steak knife. I thought I appeared suspcious, dirty and buying a single knife in the evening hours, so I bought random other things that we didn't need, and then threw them away shortly after.

And then there's the daily stupids, like i'll be on a walk or a run and have a destination, but i'll see somebody walking towards me and dart in the opposite direction that i'm supposed to be going.

 

[Timid_Wolf]

I don't know about the dumbest thing ever but this comes close. When I go clothes shopping, I hide behind things so no one sees me. So sometimes i'm on the floor watching until the cost is clear >_<;

 

[dooby-duck]

For instance:

And then there's the daily stupids, like i'll be on a walk or a run and have a destination, but i'll see somebody walking towards me and dart in the opposite direction that i'm supposed to be going.

I do that a lot. When I go out on my bike if there are too many people on one path I'll always go the other way. The stupid thing is I'd be past them in seconds anyway.

 

[7411]

Passed over a really nice scholarship to a really nice university. That could have been a life changing thing and still sometimes keeps me awake at night.

 

[userremoved]

Saying "No"

 

[PhantomPod]

I quit a job. I got a job at Target during my senior year of college. It was right around Christmas time and I really could've used the money (and the socializing). I worked out on the floor, so I had customers and people I worked with who would keep talking to me and making me anxious. Plus, I was still new, so I was anxious all the time wondering if I was doing the right thing and always seemed to be looking for direction from my boss about what to do next.

But the hardest part was that we had to wear walkie-talkies on our belts. So, if I was in the women's clothing section and some lady came up to me asking about a toy, I could page a co-worker in the toy section to get what the lady wanted. Well, that walkie-talkie caused me so much anxiety I about near had a panic attack. When a co-worker would page someone in the area I was working in, I would ignore it and hope someone else in my area grabbed it. So yeah, that walkie-talkie did me in and caused me a lot of anxiety. I lasted about two weeks at that job before I quit.

 

[Spike Lee]

tearing up the phone number of a really attractive girl (who was also extremely shy herself)........I'm sure it was already hard enough for her to build up the nerve to approach me.

And then I went home and tore it up like a ****ing dumbass (can you curse on these forums? btw)...

I was only 17 at the time but that is something I deeply regret because she was so gorgeous...and yet socially awkward like myself........


I could definitely use someone like her in my life since I'm now 24 single and miserable...ughhhhh.....


if you're reading this then I just want to say that YES I was an ******* and I apologize!!

 

[Spike Lee]

I made a mistake close to yours...with serious repercusions. I refused to ask out a girl I had a crush on over and over again when she came by my house. And when i finnaly did had the guts to call her sister on the phone to say to her i wanna date her (I was as drunk as I could be when i made the call), I found out she started datting someone else.

So that was the last drop that made me go on a long research for a cure for SP, the thing that made me wonder: how can studies help me be happy, when i cant have a GF, when i cant interact with ppl , when i cant do this and that? so i dropped my studies due to depression caused by this thoughts.

If i had asked her out, maybe now I wouldnt know that this shyness is called SP and maybe has a cure, but i would deffinetly have finished my college, and got a job, not isolate myself in the house. Maybe...maybe not

interesting.

it's weird because shortly after that incident i started smoking pot and had no problem talking and approaching women. I guess you can say I became a mack. Then when I stopped smoking in 2005 I slowly came back around to being afraid of human beings again.


So I'm thinking that maybe I should start smoking again?

 

[Spike Lee]

a nick bag is only 5 dollars breh.

blunts are about 50 cent.

Paper's are healthier though, but I never used them so I don't know how much they cost.

but yeah, considering the fact that I haven't smoked in 5 yrs I don't know where to get any weed now also. But I'm sure I could call someone up who could point me in the right direction

 

[EscapeArtist]

pot made my social anxiety a lot worse personally... especially when I was stoned. I feared EVERYBODY... as if they were supernatural monsters.

obviously i don't smoke pot anymore, and yeah it's all dependant on who's smoking it. Very different for each person but normally for people with SA i hear that it makes their problem a lot worse. A lot of the time people with SA get panic attacks when they smoke pot too... or at least the ones i know do

 

[Emma22w]

Skipping school before the bus arrived, missing social fun gatherings..

 

[Predacon]

I had this job interview, but I choked on going to it and instead went to the movies. I went back told my family it went okay only to have them say that the place had rung up and wondered where I was. Not my finest hour.

 

[laurenboborenfefifoforen]

My friend set me up to meet this guy and Through out the course of the night I Fell over on my face trying to pick up a card, sat in a container of hot sauce from Mc Donald's, and then stated "so I guess they want us to hook up or something."

Oh Jeez, most embarrassing night ever, all could have been avoided if I wasn't so nervous. -__-

 

[LazyHermitCrab]

a very recent one was when I went to a concert and they were giving out free sodas and I was the only one who said no and they kept insisting its freee and then im like no yes no yes actually no and then i bought a soda later on and one of the people handing them out glared at me..

 

[Shift]

Well, I got accepted to a really great art college and I've gotten several scholarships from them and if I don't go, it will be the dumbest thing I ever do. But, I am absolutely terrified of moving to a new school, in a new state all by myself with no friends and I probably won't be making very many new ones...

And, on the subject of pot: I've only had it a few times, but it calms me down a lot and clears out my head so that I don't worry about everything like I normally do, which pretty much gets rid of my anxiety. I've been told pot isn't addictive and the only bad side effects (which aren't actually bad) I've had would be that I giggle like an idiot at things that aren't funny and it also makes me sleepy sometimes.

If I ever get a job, I'm going to get a medical marijuana card.

 

[xxaimsxx]

Well i made some new friends over a year ago and one of them texted me to see how i was (because i hadnt spoken to them in a long while) and i replied back pretending to be someone else who had bought my phone saying 'Sorry aimee sold her phone to me, shes got a new number now' or something like that and he believed it and texted back 'oh ok sorry.' ::

UTTER MADNESS. this is what social phobia does!!!
god im stupid. still cant believe i did it. pmsl!!!!

 

[Spike Lee]

Well, I got accepted to a really great art college and I've gotten several scholarships from them and if I don't go, it will be the dumbest thing I ever do. But, I am absolutely terrified of moving to a new school, in a new state all by myself with no friends and I probably won't be making very many new ones...

And, on the subject of pot: I've only had it a few times, but it calms me down a lot and clears out my head so that I don't worry about everything like I normally do, which pretty much gets rid of my anxiety. I've been told pot isn't addictive and the only bad side effects (which aren't actually bad) I've had would be that I giggle like an idiot at things that aren't funny and it also makes me sleepy sometimes.

So If I ever get a job, I'm going to get a medical marijuana card.

oh my god?

So if you suffer from anxiety issues/depression there's a possibility you could get medical marijuana?

 

[Shift]

oh my god?

So if you suffer from anxiety issues/depression there's a possibility you could get medical marijuana?

Well, I've heard you can get medical marijuana for anxiety in California, but not here in Colorado. But I can get it for chronic pain, which I also suffer from.

 

[Spike Lee]

I'll have to look into that

 

[DeadCities]

Oh gawd, I've done alot of dumb things cuz of my sa! I did the same thing u did op, with the skipping, I'd wait like 4 hours outside in the cold reading a book till school was over. But uh yeah, theres alot more, I can't even think of all the **** I've done right now. ::