worked at a skyzone, actress and now working at a high end restaurant. social skills just never approve
the best advice i see is just to get out there and even acknowledge it, embrace it and i don’t think there is any other way to be out there than having to talk to 200+ people everyday and acting, which is vulnerable and meeting new people, out of state all ages etc. i just freeze up and lack all around.
i don’t know how to carry out a conversation i've tried to watch how other people do it and it just never has came naturally to me. one time a teacher in 8th grade told me some percentage number of how often people look at ur eyes when having conversations and i seriously think that little comment has messed me up forever. i’m abnormally conscious of how much eye contact i make and i make good eye contact until it’s my time to speak. if i make eye contact i lose my train of thought, but i regularly do anyways. it’s like what i want to say and in my brain is a big brake pedal and i go blank, people often finish my sentences for me. even just talking to family members, no stakes at all.
i wanna be a actress, i go well with scripts but i'm terrible at improv or any change of the acting scene i freak out. since i go into acting jobs knowing i might have to improv or classes it makes me nervous and i freeze up even more. when i’m sleep deprived im at my best actually. goes to show how highly wired my brain already is.
i’ve always been this way. i just didn’t care about it /didn't affect my lifestyle till much later in life. i wouldn’t say i’m shy. #relationships source