Anonymous
Well-known member
Yeah, acting or performing aren't really social interactions. You don't have to be yourself, the lines are already written for you and you just read them. I would almost see acting as being a release from SA.
But when the acting stops, suddenly you don't have a script to tell you what to say or do....that's when the feelings of vulnerability return.
I find at work that if I have to attend a meeting, even with a bunch of strangers, I can put on my professional act and so long as we're talking about work, I'm OK...we have things to discuss. But when we reach a coffee break, talking about work stops and now I have to try to make conversation about other things, the doubts about my social skills return and I get real anxious. I probably make the worst impression on people at meetings not during the meeting itself, but during the coffee breaks.
Same sort of thing as acting - when I don't have a the "script" to work to, I panic.
But when the acting stops, suddenly you don't have a script to tell you what to say or do....that's when the feelings of vulnerability return.
I find at work that if I have to attend a meeting, even with a bunch of strangers, I can put on my professional act and so long as we're talking about work, I'm OK...we have things to discuss. But when we reach a coffee break, talking about work stops and now I have to try to make conversation about other things, the doubts about my social skills return and I get real anxious. I probably make the worst impression on people at meetings not during the meeting itself, but during the coffee breaks.
Same sort of thing as acting - when I don't have a the "script" to work to, I panic.
