yeah, when I was a toddler/small child - I would want to talk to random people, really loud, always singing.

Then I had a phase in middle school where I was really outspoken, but that went away when I started high school.

 

I was social up until 17, it was when I left school and lost touch with people, I've always been quiet thats just me but I'd be out everyday and wouldn't come in till late, it went down hill after school finished.

 

When I was a child, I was a huge talker once I got into a topic I really walked to gab about. I was shy, but any topic of my interest could get me talking for hours. Once I would start talking, it's like any worries I had took a back seat. Now talking and saying anything spontaneously is very anxiety provoking. I think I started to fade out sometime around junior high school.

 

As a kid maybe. Does that really count though?

 

Yes, it does.

 

In elementary school, I was a carefree child. I made friends with basically everyone in class. Those were the good days... I used to hang out with people, birthday parties, etc

 

I haven't been a social butterfly at all so far, just a caterpillar... Time to spin a cocoon and sprout some wings

 

Eh, not really.

I've had periods where I was kind of social, but I always end up running back to the safety of my bedroom. I guess as I aged, I became more and more isolated and developed social anxiety.

 

I can still be depending on the right environment and situation. I feel normal in these cases because I am totally relaxed. But 80% of the time I am still a tad too reserved. So for me my social anxiety is completely situational based.

 

I was care free and confident until the age of around 21! Used to have lots of friends and actually had a social life.

Now I hardly have any 'real' friends and rarely go out.

 

Damn.. I tend to compare my current self to my old self and get really disheartened.. do you do the same?

i think i've always been shy. i can not recall one era in my life where i was actually comfortable around ppl, not even my family.

That's f****d... im blessed in the sense that i was once healthy and happy.. i have a lot of respect for those like yourself that have had to deal with this your whole life..

I wouldn't say I was a social butterfly as a kid/early teen with great conversation, but I was super outgoing and almost TOO outgoing. Almost a odd child haha. I remember I had to take the whole school assembly by myself for interrupting one + I had to read a story to 100's of kids and just ended up making jokes + running around to the amusement of my whole school. (not sure if non-UK people have ''assembly'', like when the whole school sits in a hall + sometimes they'll be awards given out or a 'moral story' or just random news)

I was well liked at that age. Had friends over 24/7. Even had people come up to me when I was 15-17 age saying I'd got boring and at one stage they were even scared of me cuz I was just in your face but by 14 I'd just completely become introverted..strange.

Same question bro.. do you often compare your current self to your old self?

 

i think i've always been shy. i can not recall one era in my life where i was actually comfortable around ppl, not even my family.

 

I wouldn't say I was a social butterfly as a kid/early teen with great conversation, but I was super outgoing and almost TOO outgoing. Almost a odd child haha. I remember I had to take the whole school assembly by myself for interrupting one + I had to read a story to 100's of kids and just ended up making jokes + running around to the amusement of my whole school. (not sure if non-UK people have ''assembly'', like when the whole school sits in a hall + sometimes they'll be awards given out or a 'moral story' or just random news)

I was well liked at that age. Had friends over 24/7. Even had people come up to me when I was 15-17 age saying I'd got boring and at one stage they were even scared of me cuz I was just in your face but by 14 I'd just completely become introverted..strange.

 

Yes up until I think it was 2nd grade. I seriously think my teacher caused my social anxiety. I got in trouble one time for talking and my teacher called me out in the front of the class and said that if I keep talking she would stop me from going on a fieldtrip so I got quite. At that point in my life I didn't care about me grades/school. Now, I'm the complete opposite. I guess my brain is still stuck on thinking that if I talk I will get humiliated or punished Idk.

 

Never.

 

No I always had it but then I discovered my mama kept whiskey in this one cabinet. Love at first sip. Now I'm 25 and I'm an extroverted drunk and a jaded, aloof ******* sober.

 

I've been a social butterfly. In school I had a friend within every clique.
My SA began in High school when i went to a new school where I didn't know anybody and I felt like I didn't fit in anymore. I was used to getting greeted by a bunch of friends and their friends as I walked down the hall. Rude awakening when you're looked at like a freak because nobody knows you. It was hard to understand.

 

I think I was up to first grade, and was really outspoken too. Apparently I told this kid once that if he came to my birthday party, I would kick his ***.

 

before I entered junior high. not exactly social butterfly, but back then I loved talking and hanging out with the kids from my neighborhood.

 

I was really loud happy outgoing child until my parents divorced - apparently thats when I became really quite and withdrawn, I don't remember too well its all a blur but thats what my parents tell me

 

Yup

 

I've always been an introvert.

 

I talked much more before high school (and sa). I used to say Hi to random adults on the corridor because me and my friends found it funny (adults saw it as polite though), I wouldn't dare do that now.

 

Right up until I was 17 I was a social butterfly....then for some unknown reason I started blushing a lot. I had NEVER blushed or had my face go red before, so this began my anxiety journey. I was able to handle it somewhat with makeup etc but that no longer helps me mentally, so at the age of 40 I can't even bring myself to converse with most of my relatives that I used to converse with before.....I have never come out and said I have this social anxiety disorder....my husband just tells them I'm suffering from IBS....which is partly true as I do suffer from that also...

 

Yup. I used to make friends everywhere I went. We moved a lot when I was a kid, and so I always made new friends in my classes and in the neighbourhood. I remember hearing adults talking about how I'd never have problems in life, and they were jealous that I could make friends with such ease. And then I hit the age of 12 and I started to get made fun for my looks all the time, and SA started.

I'm even jealous of my old self. I wish I could make friends like I used to, and not be afraid of people judging me for my face.

 

Sure. I was the funniest kid in school as well as the fastest runner. But since it was from like age 10 to 12 it's meaningless to me. We were just kids. You develop who you really are later on in life.

 

I was as a kid.

Then I became fat because my mother didn't feed me properly (I was "difficult"... what kid isn't?). I started getting bullied because of it and I became the recluse that I am now.