(November 19, 2015 at 3:35 am)Kitan Wrote: I actually have a mild form of social anxiety. I am fine around people for a short time. However, being around them too much brings about attacks that employers never understand. When I am undergoing an attack, I have absolutely no control over what I say or do. Literally. It is a bad condition to have for one who works in the retail business, but I honestly have no idea what else I could do. Today, it seems all one can do is retail.
I love where I work right now, and I do a great job at what I do. However, I can already see that my condition is not good for those with whom I work.
My supervisor whispered to me the other day that I cannot keep having these episodes, but it seems she does not understand that the episodes are not something I can control. It worries me. I want to be normal, but social anxiety is clearly not something that one can control just because someone else wills it.
What do you tend to say or do during an attack?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
