Have you always had SA?

[NathanielWingatePeaslee]

I've only recently begun really looking into understanding this stuff, and I've seen a few cases where apparently people didn't always have the problem, but somehow grow into it.

I can remember as far back as pre-k viewing other humans as loud, incomprehensible creatures that were best avoided.

 

[Barra79]

i think i always had it, was always shyer than most people even as a kid, i read somewhere that its genetic

 

[Emily_G]

It varied for me. Not sure about elementary school. Jr high I was really shy, most of high school I was very loud, annoying, etc...a typical teen. Then I went to college and that's when signs of SA started, and it got really bad when I became more overt about my stuttering.

 

[reslo]

I can remember as far back as pre-k viewing other humans as loud, incomprehensible creatures that were best avoided.

lol i like your description
i've always been shy and awkward.

i remember being in kindergarted and feeling stupid and on the outside- not feeling like a part of various groups my mom signed me up for at the time. never been popular throughout school, always wanted to be.

shyness awkwardness low self-esteem- those i've had all my life. i think it wasn't until college i realized how bad my shyness was. im 23 now, and its only been in the past year that ive realized that i need to eventually get outside help to get over this.

 

[lyricalliaisons]

I've had it ever since I can remember. My mom remembers me being this way ever since I was a toddler.

 

[DownInAHole]

nope started around 13-14

 

[206Raider]

I was talkative and very popular in school but I feel I started getting SA in middle school but maybe I always had it? I had lots of friends but when I look back I think I got shyer and shyer every year to the point where 2009 I didn't have a whole lot of fun becuase of it. This year is going to be different though, I'm going to talk to my therapist tommorow and I'm going back to school and I just feel much more confident and I'm talking to old friends I used to hang out with and they want to hang out again (which makes me nervous but I'll go through with it) and hopefully I can make 2010 a new beggining.

 

[megalon]

In the memories I have from when I was in elementary school it seems like I was a talkative, normal kid with friends. The strange thing is that now I don't feel like I ever changed. I feel like I've had SA forever and there is no point in my life when I can look back and say "this point is when the SA started."

 

[narwhals]

Nope. I'm pretty sure I started getting it when I moved during my first year of middle school. Since then, I haven't really changed awkward-wise.

 

[TheWall]

Ever since I can remember.

 

[Darker Than Black]

not until i came to this **** country aka canada

 

[Krista]

I know I've had it for awhile, a long time actually. It's been manageable in the past but this last year, I feel, it's really blown up. I look back on situations in school and other things where it would rear it's head but funny how it gets more severe being out.

 

[johnny 85]

nope i did not have it all my life. in my teens i was a bit low in confidence but i really enjoyed goin out and was quiet a chatterbox. i only started to experience SA symtoms when i was 20 . i know now that half the cause of my social anxiety was self inflicted

 

[ahazaq2]

No, not at all. I'm a senior in high school this year, it only started freshman year. I always used to be shy, but never like this.

 

[Lorraine Manca]

i've always had it. its gotten worse over time. thats part of why its so hard for me to believe it can be overcome, i cant imagine life with out it.