Posted July 15, 2010 /
Last night I went to a ’social media party’ and became acutely aware of the fact that I suffer from Social Anxiety Disorder. I stood in the middle of the Grand Hyatt with my glass of wine and looked around anxiously, trying to find someone to talk to but not really wanting to talk to anyone anyway. I don’t know how to be normal in large groups of strangers. I can never come up with the right thing to say; I can never come up with anything to say. Sometimes I wish that when you met people, the culturally polite thing to do would be to give them a hug. I think we would all feel more relaxed in social situations if conversations began just after we threw our arms around each other.
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