Fear/Nerves

[Moonface]

So I'm at the airport right now, and I don't know why but I've found now that the last couple of times I've gone flying I get nervous about it once I'm on my way to the airport. I'm pretty sure that I wasn't bothered by flying at some point in the last decade.

I was gonna post my feelings in UCT but decided why not just make a thread for stuff that makes us nervous and whatnot instead.

[Mr EliteL]

I hate being put on the spot in front of people, so back in school when we'd have to stand up and give a presentation I was just utterly awful at it, and would often try to go last or near last. I still never want to do anything like that again. In primary school we did have plays, usually my parts were small and I'd be on stage with others too though back then it didn't bother me as much as it did in secondary school. However I do think about how I'd be if I was somehow an entertainer and if I was ever on stage with an audience or in front of a camera...sometimes I imagine it could be fine as it's a sea of people, well as long as I wasn't the only one there, but...nah definitely not my thing.

In a way heights but more so falling from heights, I'm fine going up a great height but once at the top I might start getting thoughts of falling fast, includes water slides too, so I'd rather go back down the way I came and not an alternate thrilling way. So yeah no bungie jumping, sky diving and rather no parachuting for me. Although the thoughts don't happen on flights as I've flown definitely twice and was unbothered, possibly 4 as I went to Italy but can't remember if that was by flight or sea travel, I know Belgium was by sea. However if the plane does have some kind of accident...well I at least won't be the only one starting to worry a lot then.

[Moonface]

I hate being put on the spot in front of people, so back in school when we'd have to stand up and give a presentation I was just utterly awful at it, and would often try to go last or near last. I still never want to do anything like that again. In primary school we did have plays, usually my parts were small and I'd be on stage with others too though back then it didn't bother me as much as it did in secondary school.

Yeah unless you were in the choir and auditioned for a main role, then each year/class just went up on stage as a whole group to serve as background characters in scenes without any lines so the only attention you'd likely get aimed at you in that scenario would be your family watching for you.
Funnily enough, even though I don't necessarily struggle with it, I'm not a big fan of having to present to a group either, especially if it concerns presenting artwork because I get hyper aware/paranoid of any flaws that might get pointed out (even though they rarely if ever are because my uni here doesn't really do final critique with criticism involved). Just talking is one thing, being judged on it or what I'm talking about is when I get bothered by it. My only saving grace is being able to adjust on the fly to stuff where if someone points out something comes across as x (where x is something I never thought of nor intended) I'll sometimes just bullshit that I hadn't got to that yet and I'm happy someone pointed it out before I did.

In a way heights but more so falling from heights, I'm fine going up a great height but once at the top I might start getting thoughts of falling fast, includes water slides too, so I'd rather go back down the way I came and not an alternate thrilling way. So yeah no bungie jumping, sky diving and rather no parachuting for me. Although the thoughts don't happen on flights as I've flown definitely twice and was unbothered, possibly 4 as I went to Italy but can't remember if that was by flight or sea travel, I know Belgium was by sea. However if the plane does have some kind of accident...well I at least won't be the only one starting to worry a lot then.

Reading this one made me think of the opposite in a sense, where I get more bothered by heights looking up at them rather than down from them. I've tried looking up at tall buildings in cities when standing next to them and I just do not like doing it for some reason, but if I was in one and looked out the window I wouldn't give a shit.