How do you find the confidence to expose your nerdier side when you have social anxiety? Being more open about the stuff I like and losing all my friends and not bein able to make new ones is my biggest fear. I feel like I am going to have a heart attack just thinking about it.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 11 13:22:58 2021 No.10685357 [Reply] [Original]

How do you find the confidence to expose your nerdier side when you have social anxiety? Being more open about the stuff I like and losing all my friends and not bein able to make new ones is my biggest fear. I feel like I am going to have a heart attack just thinking about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 11 14:16:42 2021 No.10685389 Try /adv/. This board is for cosplay and jfashion discussion. Not about mental health and social issues.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 12 20:43:00 2021 No.10686026 Okay but that Ichigo cosplay is fire tho damn, I got another one for you

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 12 20:45:28 2021 No.10686027 >>10686026 Forgot the pic, I derped

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 12 20:46:30 2021 No.10686028 File: 141 KB, 1125x1373, D3EF8D81-A31B-410A-A7DC-60C5DDC446D0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10686027 FORGOT IT AGAIN. This new captcha will be the death of me.

Anonymous Wed Oct 13 15:21:11 2021 No.10686435

>>10685357
I drop nerdy dogwhistles to see if anyone reacts. For example, I say that I minored in Japanese and that I studied abroad in Japan (which is true), the only people that minor in Japanese and study abroad there are weebs, so just about anyone that's a weeb will go "oh, so you're a weeb?" just from that info. After that, I mention I'm into sewing (which sounds feminine but really doesn't have to be; if it's a dudebro, dress it up as you like to make custom streetwear). Sewing + being a weeb is a flag for being a cosplayer/interested in it.

Another common method is to bring up more normie examples and then drop progressively more and more "deeper" examples. If I like to game, I'm not going to come out and say that I like to play something niche, I'll start out with Call of Duty and then talk about niche-r and niche-r examples.

Anonymous Wed Oct 13 15:47:06 2021 No.10686443

>>10685357
Honestly normie don't cares, and on the opposite are sometime curious about those kind of creative hobbies. Just don't be creepy or obsessed about it.
If anyone would make a fuss on a hobby, then it's not probably a good friend to start with. Most people don't really care

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 14 11:49:09 2021 No.10686787 Go into some online group full of nerds. It's that simple. Forums, chats, facebook groups, whatever. That's the easiest way to meet other geeks.

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