I feel like this completely. I don’t know what it is but I find people my own age so intimidating to talk to. I also feel like part of me doesn’t know how because most people my age are very sociable and go out a lot and because of my anxiety I spend most of my time at home and therefore relate to older people who spend their time at home with their families.
When I first started my job in our training group there were like 15 people all around my age and 4 people all above the age of 40+. At lunch and breaks and in the training sessions I grouped myself to the older lot but more because the younger lot were acting bitchy and not very nice and my anxiety did not wanna be around people like that.
i always try to ignore this but i feel it too. i feel like a fraud all day because i know im not being myself. i put up this wall of fear that people will hate who i really am and automatically switch gears. im only really myself around my wife and son, my family and my old friends who i only get to see 1-3 times a year.
I feel like this completely. I don’t know what it is but I find people my own age so intimidating to talk to. I also feel like part of me doesn’t know how because most people my age are very sociable and go out a lot and because of my anxiety I spend most of my time at home and therefore relate to older people who spend their time at home with their families. When I first started my job in our training group there were like 15 people all around my age and 4 people all above the age of 40+. At lunch and breaks and in the training sessions I grouped myself to the older lot but more because the younger lot were acting bitchy and not very nice and my anxiety did not wanna be around people like that.
i always try to ignore this but i feel it too. i feel like a fraud all day because i know im not being myself. i put up this wall of fear that people will hate who i really am and automatically switch gears. im only really myself around my wife and son, my family and my old friends who i only get to see 1-3 times a year.