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Social Anxiety

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Interested to know if anyone else with ASD experiences this. I'm not sure how much there's a link. For me I think it was bullying linked in part to autism = development of social anxiety. 

I here people with ASD talk about anxiety, but I'm not clear how it manifests for them. I also see other autistic people who seem fine with talking in front of big groups of people etc.

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  • Yes. Last Friday I FORCED myself to go to a 'race & social' event run by my triathlon club.

    Well, I only had to force myself to stay for the BBQ after the race.

    Even though these are people I see fairly regularly at training or races those interactions are comfortably superficial and limited to "How are you feeling about the race?" "Bike course looks good" etc. and as everyone is focussed on training/racing things like eye contact are less in evidence from everyone (thousand-yard stare while thinking about the course is common).

    So to have to actually interact with these people socially was a big ask. I did it, I didn't enjoy it, but its a way to build up a skill in a 'safe' environment so I have it to fall back on if needed.

    To be honest, to stand in front of a large group would be easier as I'd be talking about a subject I was interested/knowledgeable in and not actually directly interacting with any one individual... so 'presenting' which is MUCH easier than 'socialising'...

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  • Yes. Last Friday I FORCED myself to go to a 'race & social' event run by my triathlon club.

    Well, I only had to force myself to stay for the BBQ after the race.

    Even though these are people I see fairly regularly at training or races those interactions are comfortably superficial and limited to "How are you feeling about the race?" "Bike course looks good" etc. and as everyone is focussed on training/racing things like eye contact are less in evidence from everyone (thousand-yard stare while thinking about the course is common).

    So to have to actually interact with these people socially was a big ask. I did it, I didn't enjoy it, but its a way to build up a skill in a 'safe' environment so I have it to fall back on if needed.

    To be honest, to stand in front of a large group would be easier as I'd be talking about a subject I was interested/knowledgeable in and not actually directly interacting with any one individual... so 'presenting' which is MUCH easier than 'socialising'...

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