Things you've done that are surprisingly un-SA

[Punxsutawney Phil]

This might be a good way of drawing attention to our more outgoing sides. Have you ever done anything such as:

1.Gone naked in public.
2.Sung in front of an audience.
3.Given a wedding speech.
4.Done stand up comedy.
5.Done a solo on the dance floor

The most un-SA things I have done where when I was a child. Now as an adult I can shape my life to avoid things I don't want to do which is probably why I am often so miserable. That's an interesting thing - I couldn't wait to have the freedom of being an adult but in fact I am less free because I am free to avoid everything.

[jontyboyoh]

Originally Posted by Punxsutawney Phil

This might be a good way of drawing attention to our more outgoing sides. Have you ever done anything such as:

1.Gone naked in public.
2.Sung in front of an audience.
3.Given a wedding speech.
4.Done stand up comedy.
5.Done a solo on the dance floor

The most un-SA things I have done where when I was a child. Now as an adult I can shape my life to avoid things I don't want to do which is probably why I am often so miserable. That's an interesting thing - I couldn't wait to have the freedom of being an adult but in fact I am less free because I am free to avoid everything.

Yes to 1 & 5........All induced by alcohol I may add. ........

Although I would like to cover the other three, and there's a chance I could coz these are the kinds of things that are planned at the Manchester Social Practice Group [three cheers for Ady and Nicole. lol]...........

I'm also gonna be a best man in October, apparently. .....I've no doubt that I could construct a decent speech, but can't guarantee that it won't break down in tears. lol

[IRIS]

I think I must have gone naked in public when I was about 2 I certainly used to go around the streets topless in summer when I was a kid.
Nowadays I go to work everyday and boss my pateints about & argue with doctors.. that is a bit un SA at times

[you company man]

I've sung in public, but it was at a football match.

[musiq]

Under the influence of alcohol, I've done the solo dancing in the midst of a group of people forming a circle and you get to strut your stuff!! In a crowded dancefloor I've also once been kajoled into dancing on a table with a girl with the whole dancefloor watching (certainly felt like it!)...that was surprisingly good fun!

[DMC]

Originally Posted by Punxsutawney Phil

1.Gone naked in public.
2.Sung in front of an audience.
3.Given a wedding speech.
4.Done stand up comedy.
5.Done a solo on the dance floor

My answers...

1. No - but I would love to - one of my ambitions, strangely. I would really like to be comfortable enough in myself to be naked in front of someone else - and this isn't a sexual thing at all...

2. Yes - don't mind doing this if I've rehearsed the song

3. Nope - but wouldn't mind if I had it written down

4. Not intentionally ;-)

5. Never even been on a dance floor in my life :-(

[black_mamba]

1. Given a presentation and enjoyed it. (Yes I know, I'm sick and twisted)

2. Jumped up on a stage in a pub after the band left.

I'm not gonna mention the stuff I've done whilst drunk, because thats cheating.

[Winnie57]

I've done karaoke but I had had a few drinks and even then found it excruciatingly embarrassing also I was the first to ride the bucking pig at a works barbecue some years back but again I'd had a few drinks.

[Kevin Hodge]

i've been in a gigging band. this included singing, playing guitar solos, etc.

best live experiences were in the period during which i played the drums, when people would come up afterwards and say they liked my playing

[Pal]

I've done a number of things that are quite suprising non SA activities. With me it greatly depends on my mood at the time and if i'm in a happy, confident, mood then the SA isn't so crippling.

[DMC]

Originally Posted by Pal

I've done a number of things that are quite suprising non SA activities. With me it greatly depends on my mood at the time and if i'm in a happy, confident, mood then the SA isn't so crippling.

Same here. But with me, it's more "binary" in that either the SA is on or off.

So some days I walk to work with a spring in my step believing I can conquer the world.

Others I mope into work dragging my feet and convinced everyone is watching me.

However, there are some things (and invite to the pub, or someone saying something I think may be directed at me) which immediately switch me from the former mood into the latter with an ease which is unpleasant.

D.

[julie6672]

i use to play piano at my nans old folks home every christmas..it was good fun..but ive lost my confidence now so i dont really play anymore....i did kiss a boy on a bus when i was at school (does that count as un-SA?)

[Beehive]

I few years ago I got sick of doing nothing just because I'm on my own, so I decided to go out there and do stuff. I started going to yoga, I went three times a week! Looking back I'm still kinda amazed. I went into a new environment, with new people and did something I had never done before. Crazy. Nowadays, despite the fact that I want to go, wild horses couldn't drag me there.

[jontyboyoh]

Mmmm........I may have something called social anxiety, but in the right company I'm also a right posin B'stard! lol

Plus, I think most days I find it easier to perform in a play than have a 'normal' conversation.........But I've heard this is the case with most poetic geniuses.

[Chach]

Originally Posted by black_mamba

1. Given a presentation and enjoyed it. (Yes I know, I'm sick and twisted)

2. Jumped up on a stage in a pub after the band left.

I'm not gonna mention the stuff I've done whilst drunk, because thats cheating.

I've given presentations and enjoyed it and I'm not sick or twisted ... I think.:confusedp

I also enjoy dancing - even when I'm the only one on the floor.

[Punxsutawney Phil]

I once played Rachmaninov on a grand piano infront of some work colleagues - could never have played it that well sober

Wow, Marley's Ghost! So you must be quite accomplished and have big hands.

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Punxsutawney Phil

Wow, Marley's Ghost! So you must be quite accomplished and have big hands.

i was gonna say something like that, i have heard of "russian piano syndrome"...the stereotype that they are no slouches!

being in a band was cool in some ways and crap in others. other band members would be sitting talking to their friends before the gig - guess what i'd do?

I've been on local radio. I don't know what possessed me

[Occultus]

^ Ooo! Sounds interesting! What were you doing?

I went on a talk show about mental health issues.