{"id":656,"date":"2007-05-08T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/why-am-i-so-scared"},"modified":"2007-10-20T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:36:33","slug":"why-am-i-so-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/why-am-i-so-scared","title":{"rendered":"Why am I so scared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dread social situations, more precisely official situations: presentations, calling on the phone on official matters, handling things at a counter or office somewhere. When I realise I have to do something like that, my heart rate jumps a lot of notches and my face <em>feels<\/em> like it&#8217;s turning red. I have to think how I&#8217;m going to start and rehearse a few times.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the situations don&#8217;t cause me to blunder; I don&#8217;t stutter, get mixed up with my words, or mumble unintelligently. In fact, I&#8217;m very normal and seem at ease. Why, then, can&#8217;t I remember it when the pre-socialising symptoms start disturbing my calm and collectedness;  I <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> make (too bad) a fool out of myself however much I fear it.<\/p>\n<p>I just made a call to customer service to change my parents&#8217; magazine subscription to a discount. I tried to think of a way to state my business, thought I&#8217;d figured out a good way to start but still managed to say something quite ungrammatical (it is very easy in Finnish with the 15+ noun cases we have). Nevertheless, I was understood. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I was flushing and well on my way to arrhythmia. But I sailed through it.<\/p>\n<p>Very frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dread social situations, more precisely official situations: presentations, calling on the phone on official matters, handling things at a counter or office somewhere. When I realise I have to do something like that, my heart rate jumps a lot of notches and my face feels like it&#8217;s turning red. I have to think how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-people","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}