where you scared as a child ?

[WeirdyMcGee]

I was outgoing and friendly-- with no friends and wasn't really scared of much.
Only took starting school to turn me around, though; suddenly I was scared of people.

 

[LifeInternal88]

Yep. I was the girl who didn't talk.

Yep, same here.

Although my parents say I did when I was about 3,4,5; but I think it's normal for very little kids to be talkative at home.

 

[Piece_By_Piece]

Yes, I was unusually scared. I was always very scared of people and suspicious of their motives. I was very quiet compared to others. Now that I look back and think about it, I think at one point I had selective mutism. There was a time when I was in pre-school, and I talked very little, only a few words in that whole time. Of course, at that time I wasn't aware of it and I don't know why I didn't talk back then.

Also when I started school I was still very quiet, though there were a few people that I thought of as my friends and I talked to them quite normally. I was quite a lonely kid anyway. And I've been socially anxious for as long as I can remember.

 

[theslowesthand]

I was very shy & anxious right from the get-go. Even couldn't speak with family at dinner table. I guess i didn't have anything to talk about with most people.
Then as i learnt that people's words could hurts me badly, it morphed into more of an avoidance thing, rather than shyness/SA. Logically it was necessary to avoid public, groups, certain people .. so that i could stay relatively happy.

 

[TheTemp]

**** no, I was a social butterfly kid. Me and my sister both were, we ran ****.

 

[psych]

Not really, a little shy, but not abnormally so. I was a happy sociable kid until about age 8. After that, I began to be abused at home. But, I was pretty normal, had good grades, & a sunny disposition, prior to that.

 

[OceanMist]

I was always shy. The teachers in grade school would always have only one thing to complain about to my parents, "He gets good grades but he never says anything?"

My parents just assumed it was early child shyness and didn't think much of it until I wound up in a mental hospital when I was 23.

Yeah, I've always been a recluse. I was even too scared to play soccer as a 1st grader. I was the only kid who just sat on the sidelines out of fear.

In kindergarten, my dad had to drag me to school kicking and screaming on the first day. The other kids were like what the heck.

 

[GarbageOfTruth]

I was somewhat shy and very socially awkward.

 

[EscapeArtist]

I find this question very interesting... Because I really solidly believe that environment is way, way important.

Uhhmm I was very quiet and isolated as a kid, but I can't remember any anxiety because I couldn't comprehend what anxiety was. In general, I was just a quiet kid, in their own world, who didn't have anxiety problems. I was good at talking if people would talk to me first, but I didn't make an effort to start anything. I loved giving school presentations and speeches, and I loved my friends, but I didn't have many, and my mom made all my friends for me lol! What about you Falkor?