If you want to know more a bit about me, this is me in a nutshell. I wouldn’t say I’m shy, but in certain situations I’m extremely anxious. To a point I’m overly polite and nice and it comes across as creepy because I’ve said this on my blog, I didn’t want people to know my vunerabilty. I would either be way to freaking happy or way to quiet, since I grew up in a dysfunctional family home, I never knew how to do emotions.
I am an introvert but I’m not shy, if I had the chance to stay home all day and not go out, I will. Now that I’m living on my own in my flat, I feel safer. I love being in my flat because I do feel comfortable. When I was living with my family, I hated staying there so any chance of me getting out, I took it and stayed out. For years I thought I was an extrovert because of that reason and I know not many people will understand that. I only recently found that out.
The situations where I was anxious is when I see people with loving families and I don’t know how to deal with that or what to do. So I just freeze and smile and I didn’t know I was being creepy, it’s me hiding my emotions when I feel uncomfortable. So when people saw that, thought something was wrong with me, but they never had a dysfunctional family where they get abused, beaten, raped, being hated and ridiculed. So when I see something that’s opposite, I get jealous and I freeze. I don’t want jealously get the better of me, I don’t want to hurt people. So I just smile, pretending everything is fine in my head, but inside I’m quivering, shaking and scared. Like “what the fuck do I do in this situation?”.
Normally in the past people hated me because they believed my family. The fell for my mothers manipulation and they hate me for it. BUT when I see people who generally care, I freeze and again I smile. Like “everything is okay”, a lot of the times I blame myself for people liking me and trying to be friendly. So many times I had to start a new life, with new friends because people believed my family and my mother. Now, that has never happened, now I freeze and smile. It’s all I can do because I’m terrified to make new friends and I can keep them this time. I normally shut down and freeze and smile but it’s hard to get out of that habit.
So now you know a little bit about me. I wish I can share this to certain people because they think I’m weird when I smile and freeze. But this is why I hate gossiping, you never know what’s going on inside their head. I don’t like to share info but I know I need to be more open and if they don’t like that, well that’s their problem. This is me trying to fix myself to become the best person I can be. It’s hard, but I’m getting there. I know I’m not perfect in anyway, but I’m trying to be the best person I can be.