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brattysub38 on January 8th, 2025 at 20:07 UTC »
After a 2 year stint in a call center, I too have phone phobia. I only call/answer my mother. All other things can be done with the written word, except maybe when I am job searching
ember3pines on January 8th, 2025 at 20:06 UTC »
One time a family member went to liek a meet up group biking thing in her city and was talking to the organizer. He mentioned he tried to run a similar group for people with social anxiety, but no one ever showed up to the meet ups. It wasnt unexpected but such a bummer still.
Greaterdivinity on January 8th, 2025 at 19:32 UTC »
This seems like uplifting news to me so it's weird some people here are taking this opportunity to dunk on the students.
We all have our quirks and problems and issues, and a great many of them can easily be viewed is silly/trivial/nonsense by tons of other people. Don't be like that.