Daydreaming/procrastinating, making videos on youtube, writing things that don't bore me, photography, poetry writing, comic book drawing, learning foreign languages, dancing, contemplating
I LOVE Japan and all the contributions they've made to the world. (Ok.. except for bombing Pearl Harbor).
The Dark Knight, Stardust, All the Rush Hour movies, Newsies, Welcome to the Doll House,The Lion King, American Graffiti,RENT, West Side Story, Batman Begins, Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted, The Jacksons: an American Dream, Hairspray, Holes, Harold and Kumar, Horton Hears a Who, Kungfu Panda, Indiana Jones, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Ratatouille, WALL-E
MUSIC
Foreign music, hip-hop, a little rap, classical, rock,
heck I like everything!
especially this :P:
BOOKS
Summer of My German Soldier, Ender's Game, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Tuck Everlasting, Scott Cunningham's the Solitary Wiccan Practitioner.
Shojo Beat, Shounen Jump, Mad (even though they don't really count as books).
A little dance I like to do when I have too much time on my hands lol
TURN OFFS
Supremists, jerks, pinky-swear breakers, people who say they're your friends but aren't :(
NO VIEWING FOR KIDS (even though he is a kid)
ABOUT ME
Of all places to be, why'd I pick this? how did I become an SAer?
Like many or few of you, I started out as a normal, active person. No pain, no problems stemming from childhood, no mental illnesses or even signs to accompany them. Shyness/bashfulness has been a problem for me since I was 7 years old. My motives for becomming a quiet, timid child perplexes even me; the people whom I always been closest to would be the hardest to grasp. This is when you'd expect situations to be the easiest, but never do even when planned out.
In the Mid '90s my 3 cousins (all in their early or late teens then) came home from a month vacation in Florida. Everybody went to greet them, but me. I hid behind the curtains of one cousin's room, anticipating for them to come. As a child, I loved messing with peoples' heads and pulling a joke. So, as they came down, I jumped out, saw everybody startled by me, but didn't say a word. My cousins all smiled and tried conversing with me warmly. No use. I just stood there like a braindead child. Ever since then, whenever I was near my cousins I wouldn't say anything. I talked to everyone else except them. Then the new environment in second grade got to me, and all communication there ever was faded. For a shy kid, I could still be mean to certain targets. But not in the way I used to be.
Since then, it started slow: not talking to most, no group participation, no friendly gestures. Until middle school broke out to not being able to blink when someone passed by, not being able to look at anyone, no more pranks pulled. What made me get better gradually in High School (Junior year) was an embarrassing, yet apathetic plead from my second oldest brother. Aren't "normal" kids supposed to argue with their siblings and embarrass them infront of their friends for fun? NO. Sonya is too quiet. She can't even talk to me, her brother. After that, something inside me forced me to start being a pusher, and pushing myself to get into a lot of social risks (ask me about them later). By no means am I cured or even close to being cured. I still have a lot to learn about this illness and why I still want to kick myself after making eye contact with anyone.
In the longer run, I found shyness and social phobia to strengthen my life, and be more open to issues that people don't normally discuss about. There's probably more downs to SA than ups, but I still believe there was a purpose to having it. I would have never learned better communication skills or the strengths of communication w/o it. The inspirational words of my brother and mom helped make me stronger and think: Why were you born in this world with a voice, if you never use it? In other words, we all have something special to offer. And if we don't use it (AKA our mouths to say what/how we feel) people will never know of the true effects it has. For example, you probably have some of the most brilliant ideas hidden under that cap, but because you were too afraid to share, the group project didn't turn out as well. Just because some people talk more than others or you, doesn't make them any more important, popular, or even wiser.
NOTE: These are just some words to take into consideration. There is no way that SA could be cured just by impulse or doing something like snapping your fingers.
Most important of all, I met the nicest, coolest people ever: YOU GUYS!!!
As a person, I'm nice, friendly, sometimes avoidant, try to be a comedian, sensitive, and open-minded. One bad side of me is being prone to jealousy and being snappy when criticized or rejected. But I'm slowly trying to accept what comes around, goes around (AKA peoples' opinions of me and my opinion of them).
Your Social Anxiety Level: 48%
You have moderate social anxiety.
It's possible that you have a serious social anxiety problem.
But it's also likely that you can help yourself, by getting out more and trying new, scary activities.
No one's secretly judging you. So be yourself, and if you screw up, just laugh.
Fall break! Sweet... Nothing to do but relax. thats the life. What do you have coming in from China? Things are cool this way. I should be getting ready for a speech tomorrow but I think I know it so I'm messing around...
wel, i got two next textbooks for college and they smell great but, apparently im the only person who likes smelling new books and apparently its weird lol.. but wutever.. its jus a loss for everyone else
Hello. Thank you for you comments. They helped me realize that 2 of the 5 songs on my player are broken...lol. I'll have to motivate myself to fix that later. I guess it's about time I changed it up anyway. Wow! You have some great music yourself. Large variety.
Lol, at first I wondered too, why the Doc talked so slow, but the slow talk technique explained it. I actually don't really have much of a problem with it. It's quite comforting and his voice is growing on me.Besides, I'm pretty damn slow anyway, so him speaking slowly might help in getting the info into my head more effectively, and makes it less hard for me to concentrate on what his saying...because when people talk fast it takes longer for the information to process though my brian and for me to get it. haha, but thats just me, i guess. maybe you're jsut all too familiar with the slow talk thing and you've gotten sick of it and wanna move faster...
Hey, interested in practicing slow talk some time? You can teach me since you already know the basics, isn't that right? I remember you said you talk slow already.
Yes I have! hasn't been working much lately though. You guys (u and clayton) are just too much fun to chat with! And I love the main pics u keep getting. Where do u get them?
you mean the pics on my SAF page or msn display pics? I get them from all different sorts of places. sometimes I google up. sometimes I photobucket.
Yeah. the one on here. Is it supposed to be you?
I guess it resembles me somewhat, lol. It's one of my favourite classic Japanese Anime characters.
