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My name is Lina. I'm a 14-year-old vegan, and I love to read books. I was born with autism. I also got selective mutism early in life. Which means, in my case, that I don't talk to more than five persons. I don't even say yes, no or hi. I haven't got rid of it yet.
When I was younger, I was totally uninterested in people. I spent time alone and I had no friends.
Now I'm a teenager, and things are getting tougher.
Nowadays I have social phobia. It's a severe form of it. Or maybe it just feels that way because I'm autistic too. I stay in my room where I isolate myself from people.
When being outside, I start to cry and get tantrums when seeing people. If they approach me, I run from them and hide. I can go kilometre after kilometre just to avoid passing people.
When I come home after being around people, I throw myself on the floor and start rocking from side to side. I do so for hours.
Every day I cut my feet with a nail clipper, because I hate my fears.
I cut until it starts bleeding.
I skip school regularly, due to the social anxiety and moreover I'm hypersensitive to sound and vision, among other things.
I have tried to kill myself.
I think my life would be much better if I didn't have social phobia.
My name is Lina. I'm a 14-year-old vegan, and I love to read books. I was born with autism. I also got selective mutism early in life. Which means, in my case, that I don't talk to more than five persons. I don't even say yes, no or hi. I haven't got rid of it yet.
When I was younger, I was totally uninterested in people. I spent time alone and I had no friends.
Now I'm a teenager, and things are getting tougher.
Nowadays I have social phobia. It's a severe form of it. Or maybe it just feels that way because I'm autistic too. I stay in my room where I isolate myself from people.
When being outside, I start to cry and get tantrums when seeing people. If they approach me, I run from them and hide. I can go kilometre after kilometre just to avoid passing people.
When I come home after being around people, I throw myself on the floor and start rocking from side to side. I do so for hours.
Every day I cut my feet with a nail clipper, because I hate my fears.
I cut until it starts bleeding.
I skip school regularly, due to the social anxiety and moreover I'm hypersensitive to sound and vision, among other things.
I have tried to kill myself.
I think my life would be much better if I didn't have social phobia.