toothpastekisses
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What kinds of people make you most anxious?
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Coper
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toothpastekisses said:
I don't think that's weird. I used to feel exactly the same way. Lately, though, I find that the age differences in how I perceive people are evening out, but in a bad way: I still feel uncomfortable around younger people, but now I feel more discomfort around older folks too. I guess in the past I felt like I could be more at ease around my elders, because I was just a kid and wasn't under pressure to relate to older folks socially. Now that I'm an adult, the age difference between me and someone 20 years older than me doesn't matter so much, socially.
In answer to your question, the people who make me especially anxious are:
people that like me, but that I don't like; they make me feel guilty.
people who I suspect perceive me as lazy or immature--you know the type, the sort of people who say depressed people are just malingerers who need some 'tough love'
people whom I wish to impress but have failed to in some way (e.g. teachers in classes that I did poorly in; I hate running into them outside of class!)
people from lower social strata than me; I worry that they might feel class or cultural resentment towards me.
soulsearcher
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Hi, it's my first post...been lurking a while. Who makes me nervous?
1. attractive people of the opposite sex (always)
2. People I perceive as being better looking/more confident/more successful than I am
3. Authority figures
4. Well-dressed and well-spoken people
ps...I'm a professional myself and deal with these kinds of people on a regular basis...I probably come across similar to the same type of people I generally am afraid of. weird, huh?
1. attractive people of the opposite sex (always)
2. People I perceive as being better looking/more confident/more successful than I am
3. Authority figures
4. Well-dressed and well-spoken people
ps...I'm a professional myself and deal with these kinds of people on a regular basis...I probably come across similar to the same type of people I generally am afraid of. weird, huh?
noblame4
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Pretty much all people make me nervous, peers, old people, kids. But the people who make me *really* nervous are those who feel that they are entitled to undermind me, or blow me off for no particular reason. Example, say Im in a group talking about something, and someone else in the group just breaks in talking over me, like I wasnt even there. I can handle someone being plain hostile toward me better than that, shit like that just compleately shuts me down.
_Brittany_
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guys (around my age) and teachers.......those are the worst!
silverwolf
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cool/high social status people of the same age but the opposite gender
Lotrsfan
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i always feel anxious if i see a group of teenagers and specially if they have to nice clothes and hairstyles etc and if they are loud and all giggly.
Sometimes i feel anxious if i see a guy i think is fit and he's got nice clothes and muscles etc
I feel anxious around other 20s something year olds and specially if they are dressed all neat and have nice hair because i feel i don't dress like a 21 year old and have the hair like them and that.
I do feel a little anxious around people if i am trying to play or talk to a toddler and those people are watching me talk/play with it.
I'm anxious around my sister's boyfriend. lol
Sometimes i feel anxious if i see a guy i think is fit and he's got nice clothes and muscles etc
I feel anxious around other 20s something year olds and specially if they are dressed all neat and have nice hair because i feel i don't dress like a 21 year old and have the hair like them and that.
I do feel a little anxious around people if i am trying to play or talk to a toddler and those people are watching me talk/play with it.
I'm anxious around my sister's boyfriend. lol
Coper
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noblame4 said:
I know exactly what you're talking about. Happens to me all the time. I'll finally screw up the courage to speak up in a group conversation, only to have someone else start talking over me. I HATE when people do that to me. I always feel like they must be subconsciously assuming that since I'm so shy, I have lower status in the group and they're entitled to be rude to me. Sometimes when my dad does it, I just keep on talking really loud, in a confrontational tone of voice, to register my annoyance with him. Of course, I don't do that with other people, because I don't want to seem like a jerk.
coriander1992
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Good looking people
Teenagers, especially ones my age and slightly older
Men
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Teenagers, especially ones my age and slightly older
Men
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melodycurl
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hateful, ignorant, or racist people..
authority figures
snobby rich people
authority figures
snobby rich people
Quiet Angel
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Oh goodness. I would have to say intellectuals. I'm constantly feeling pressured to have meaningful conversations with them, to sound knowledgeable, to phrase my sentences correctly without stuttering. I feel like I have to act like a perfectionist around them. Oh & also the "shady" people who are in the cities. The "bad boys" who 'people watch' & come across as slightly dangerous and possibly judgemental. When I'm with my friends who are friends with those types of people, I'm always silent.
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this_portrait
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Children make me anxious.
Guys that I think are attractive (or guys that I like) definitely make me anxious.
And people who are overly outgoing make me anxious as well.
Guys that I think are attractive (or guys that I like) definitely make me anxious.
And people who are overly outgoing make me anxious as well.
Flowers-Of-Bloom
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Peers are usually always the most threatening social group, specifically those who believe themselves to be higher up in the chain of things.
Children are much less threatening but, I'm in no degree comfortable around them, and so I prefer not to be.
People who are very foward and visually normal in style... "Normal" people are very much a worry because I am far from normal.
And most people in general. I'm a bit more comfortable around those who are 30+.