I’m scared to interact on Boost or lemmy or Mastodon or wherever the hell I am because I’m not good at socializing and I feel like my personality is just going to get me kicked off of this here new thing too …and I have honest to goodness PTSD from trying to socialize. I don’t know if I can do the cycle of socializing, kind of getting acquaintances or friends or people that don’t mind talking to me, slowly fading out, and then not having friends again , or people just not talking to me anymore and it’s really stressing me out and I don’t want to get kicked out of anywhere anymore and all I want is some friends and a community and reliability and I’m nothing but a shit show that bothers everyone around me thank you for listening to my ramble the end
Hey you, the world can be a scary place sometimes. People have varying degrees of social confidence, and there is no guarantee you’ll have a set amount of it throughout time.
Having had my own experiences with losing self-esteem and having trouble making and holding onto friends I can at the very least assume to know what you’re going through.
This place has been great so far, and it seems like people here aren’t in it for the fame or the fake internet points. But I’m also a relatively new member of this specific community and I am definitely still getting familiar.
My advice to you would be to take things slow, but at the same time not to be afraid to seek out that human connection. From what I’ve seen, people here are definitely willing to open up to you or just mess around together. Keeping low expectations will probably help keep your feelings of any potential loss under control.
True that that’s some good advice thank you