if you manage to get someone with social anxiety to go to a social event
don’t make them or guilt them into doing anything they don’t want to do at that event
don’t make them dance to bad 80s music
don’t make them dance to any music
don’t make them talk to a whole group
don’t make them get you food from a place where you have to order and converse with a stranger
don’t make them order you all drinks and have them remember your order
I’m actually really worried that nobody will ever fall in love with me.
do any males follow me
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate endings and watch them panic again as they all try to find the last ending.
This is perfect.
if you manage to get someone with social anxiety to go to a social event
don’t make them or guilt them into doing anything they don’t want to do at that event
don’t make them dance to bad 80s music
don’t make them dance to any music
don’t make them talk to a whole group
don’t make them get you food from a place where you have to order and converse with a stranger
don’t make them order you all drinks and have them remember your order

Oh my god this is giving me flashbacks to when Disney announced it was buying club penguin and there was a literal actual penguin protest in front of the clothes shop for like 4 hours straight I love society
WE CAN FIX THIS
WHY DON’T WE BUY YAHOO
i can see it now.
I have a few important things to say:
- Having a mental illness does not excuse you from being an asshole, and it does not free you of the obligation to really apologize and make it up to a person when you have caused them harm.
- You are allowed to terminate a friendship if a person’s mental illness is aggravating your own mental illness or personal issues and stressing you out.
- This has nothing to do with ‘dropping a person once they become an inconvenience’, it’s literally not being able to handle a person anymore because their health issues are negatively affecting your health, and you are not obligated to put up with that.
- You are permitted to remove toxic, stressful and abusive people from your life. Them being mentally ill does not make them not responsible for the bad things they do to you.