RockinSia wrote:Apparently now she's saying that "they" think it would be awkward if my mom came and just read a book off to the side (I didn't suggest that at all, just that my mom was coming too). If my mom has geeky interests like everyone else, though, she's welcome. I thought the whole point of meetups was to not be too exclusive, but she's taking it and making it into something different to me... After basically telling me my mom can't come to greatly ease my fears, she tells me that there are plenty of people with anxiety disorders like me in the group, she herself suffers from general anxiety, so no one will judge me for anything like that. Well guess what, I'll be a mute practically the whole time and I'll probably have a panic attack if I can't go with my mom! On top of social anxiety I'm also shy, so I have trouble coming up with things to say besides "I want to go home." in situations like these. I'm feeling like it's not worth all the agony anymore, maybe I really should just stay at home and keep living like a freaking hermit. I was very choosy with which meetup I joined, but even this one isn't working that well so far.
I wish I could talk to my mom right now, but she's feeling crappy physically because our doctor changed her blood sugar-controlling medicine that doesn't need to be changed according to my mom.
Ok yeah, no, regardless if she has general anxiety or not, they are no where near the same thing, and not all anxiety disorders are the same, social anxiety is nothing near the same type she has(My mom has to take an anxiety med so I do know about the differences) what may set off one person may not another, grouping them together like that is like saying all people that have high blood pressure have a pacemaker.
So yeah I can't blame you for skipping with that meetup, I'm don't suffer from social anxiety, but I do know shy because i'm shy too. and I was nervous like heck when I had to go to my jury pool on the 1st of april. litterally tried to sit as far away from people as possible and still wound up having people crowd around me which was not something I enjoyed.
Regarding your mom's blood sugar meds, I hate it when they do that, My mom's had hers changed multiple times in the past 2 years, yes some of it she needed because her previous method was no longer working for her, but some of it is just not much better. I hope though that it improves for her soon again, I know my mom has screamed so many times when her blood sugar will be going stable and then something throws it clear out of wack and the doctor changes the doses again. (she takes insulin directly and has had to change insulin types in the past 2-3 years)