Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by HabbGaga
Sending someone a hug, or love shouldn't be considered gay. Doesn't sound gay whatsoever.
I don't know for sure, but I guess we hold onto hoping that each time it'll get easier. I'm not 100% there yet, and I don't know when I will be, to feel complete freedom, and truly not care what people think, is a lot harder said then done. It's something we self-inflict on ourselves, and I can't begin to understand what triggered it, for us. For people who suffer social anxieties, because it doesn't happen to everyone, or at least not to this extent. I wish I could be outgoing, and that's what I'll strive for overtime, and me going to event, and revisiting friends, that were awfully kind to me in highschool, and to me, I walked away, and thought I'd never see them again, I didn't think we were 'friends' we just hung out, because it was easy to do in school. I didn't think I made any sort of impact on anyone, and to even just be invited for me. Although made me sick to the stomach, looking back now. I'm really happy I was invited, and I'm happy I went, and extremely proud of myself. It'll be hard again next time, I'm sure, because it'll be an entirely new setting, and that is if I wasn't such a bore, that people do decide to invite me elsewhere again. But I'm just gonna take it one step at a time, they always say life isn't a race. You'll get there, I'll get there. In time. Maybe not as fast as everybody else, but that's ok. Cause like you said, you've got those A's a 4.0 GP. Others don't have that, not even me. 
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This is one of my bad habits of trying to lighten up a sensitive topic with a little joke. Your situation is a reflection of my life, basically. I too was invited a lot by my friends and even now with my coworkers but I shut them off because of social anxiety. I'm always afraid of dropping even the slightest clue of my sexual orientation. I talked to a guy I was secretly meeting and he said people like us are the true "great pretenders". I'm happy that he was able to see who I truly am that many people do not see. I guess what we really need is acceptance and once we are accepted within our social backgrounds, these anxieties will slowly fade away.
It makes me happy that I know people who has the same problems as mine because it's easier to understand each other and it eases our depression. Misery does love company. Just hang on there buddy. You'll overcome it one day. 
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