The rules are made up and the points don't matter

[kellenved@sh.itjust.works]

Ya but, you don’t have to do that. Nobody cares if you walk by them in the apartment corridor without acknowledging them

[therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip]

Can't relate

[krauerking@lemy.lol]

Yeah, that's honestly the future of humanity at this rate.

Normalizing everything left and complaining about it not being normal enough and for it being normalized at all.

[klear@lemmy.world]

A Portal turret.

[veganpizza69@lemmy.world]

I need to move to Scandinavia.

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

It sounds like a magical land.

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

Ong wtf. I was expecting more "oh haha that's totally me" or some form of solidarity, but nope

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

When did we as a society reach a new low that involves shitting on people with anxiety?

[confusedbythebasics@lemmy.world]

"sorry, I'm in a rush"

[orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

well, you suffer from social anxiety, than yes, it's normal

[tarquinn2049@lemmy.world]

I suppose it depends on your definition of normal. But I specifically didn't say it was normal for everyone, I said it was normal social anxiety. Which only affects around 10% of people. Still a pretty large number, that's about the same as being left-handed. And yet you likely know more people that are left handed, because the odds of meeting someone with social anxiety are, of course, much lower even though just as many exist.

[krauerking@lemy.lol]

When it became a fad to brag about it and not to work on it and interact socially like our species has done for thousands of years.

It's fine to not be social all the time and to have anxiety. This. And all this conversation in here about how normal it is to despise your neighbors enough to hide inside just because they are outside... Is not that. And it's normalizing a fear and lack of interaction that doesn't help people. It just makes it easier to feel right about your specific quirk.

[2ugly2live@lemmy.world]

That's why I don't leave the house.

[krauerking@lemy.lol]

That would be "normal social anxiety symptoms" or even "normal for social anxiety" where normal applies to the symptom discussed. Here your use of normal supplements the "social anxiety" which I do understand is more prevalent than people would really acknowledge but isn't exactly normal.
Even more so for zero contact, no coping mechanism social anxiety that has you saying rude things about others existing in shared physical space.

[example@reddthat.com]

I’m human

I don't believe this. I'm pretty sure this computer I'm using is generating random comments as I'm scrolling through here.

[krauerking@lemy.lol]

You don't fix it. You just work on it till you can handle more because you want to or you have to.

We aren't so much as broken as just different, as we all are. We all just need to do our parts to work to be part of society rather than perfect it ourselves first.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Is "normal social anxiety symptoms" really meaningfully different than ""normal social anxiety"? Isn't that implied?

[can@sh.itjust.works]

without seeming to do anything to address the situation.

seeming

A lot of the struggles and progress in this area isn't going to outwardly visible unless they decide to share that with you.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

Ah this is a classic language misunderstanding. "Isn't necessarily" means "possibly not [thing]" or "doesn't have to be" or "may or may not be" but doesn't have much bearing on probabilities.

That's how people usually use that term in English anyway.

[vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works]

Also while I dont have social anxiety, I do have Autism and was diagnosed more specifically with Aspergers. This means that I really dont like dealing with people in general, not in an anxiety wag but in a let me do my own thing type of way.