If someone in your guild has social anxiety?

If someone in your guild has social anxiety how do you treat them? Are you ok with them not joining in vc? Or maybe joining and just not talking?

I think I’d like to join a guild on my evoker because it must be nice to have familiar people to do m+ with, but idk. My social anxiety is a major roadblock, I feel. In guilds I’ve joined in the past they allow me to just listen in but it’s pretty awkward.

Any tips? ._.

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I have anxiety , when i was in a guild raiding i just didnt say anything… anxiety usually gets better once you get more comfortable with people you are dealing with, its the process of exposure

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I don’t need to talk to other people to make cute characters :pensive:

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Your opinion is kind like giving an opinion to a layer while knowing nothing about law

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Did that make sense in your head?

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Yea Grog

/10 char

No it’s not. It’s like loving pizza, but ordering it online because going into a store, or even talking on the phone can trigger anxiety.

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As always, the forum dwellers can’t comprehend a simple analogy.

OP chose to play a game where social interaction was inevitable.

OP has social anxiety.

They put themselves in this predicament, so I question why they did that.

Unless they did to face their fears, and overcome them?

That would be a great step.

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this is how gorg posts. he posts these posts where he thinks his posts are applying to everyone because “this how he got over it.” while newsgflash thats not how world works.
likes his “i got over my fear of heights by going on a roller coaster so you can too” post awhile back. like SERIOUSLY?!

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That why i put that statement lol… if you have a problem you should not run away from it, unless thats what you do, by the way you speak

Dominos would be the ideal place to work for a pizza hating misanthrope. Pollute the world with the worst “pizza” imaginable

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No, you failed to make a good analogy because you opted for a knee-jerk response without understanding what you were talking about. Give up now because it just looks worse as you keep digging that hole.

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Go pretend to be drunk again.

Oh and role play your hatred of Draenei.

You’re a two trick pony, and neither is worth paying attention to.

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don’t worry he’ll keep digging it deeper and deeper.

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Yeah, the Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one. :woman_shrugging:

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seriously he is like convinced he’s right and everyone else is wrong. i see you typing angryily there gorg. your just upset im throwing out truth bombs.

Funny how I was talking to the OP, and these two come out of nowhere, and make all about them…

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I have a friend with severe social anxiety… took him a long time to get comfortable with my friends group. He’d at times would want to back out of raids if we needed to pug someone because we were too few and he would become a mute with there was and he’d not last long in that raid. It is tough, but he found another group of people to play with mostly and we’ll do M+'s from time to time with him. Patience is the key.

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What about typing? I have social anxiety. I listen in Discord, but I usually just type responses in chat, at least until I have raided with a group a long time and get to know them enough to get comfortable to talk.

I don’t think just listening is awkward, for an excuse you can even just say you don’t have a microphone.

I usually just don’t do stuff with people outside of raid hours and keep to myself.

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That’s objectively false. I mean I’m pretty sure I can get to my goal of KSM alone which I did last season. Group finder is just like playing with NPCs :man_shrugging:

Ig the only predicament I put myself in is maybe wanting a guild? Is it so bad to want to work on my social anxiety and join a guild? lmao

Yeah, in my past guilds I would type to communicate but I did feel very left out when in vc chat with them. Also, its a bit difficult to respond when they need me to do something in the middle of combat.

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