DON'T TELL ME I DON'T HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETY!!

Hey, so I just wanted to make a quick video to address a few of the comments that I got on my last video where I talked about how social anxiety affects my life. And the reason why I want to make this video is because in general most of the feedback and the comments I got for that video

were positive and good, but there were several comments that really irritated me and just were really stupid. Most of these comments sounded the same. They were saying saying things like, you're just pretending to have social anxiety, or how can you have social anxiety when you meet up with random girls and have sex? How can you have social

anxiety when you make videos on YouTube and talk about really personal things in front of thousands of people? And I just want to explain how just because I make videos on YouTube and just because I meet up with girls and have sex with them doesn't mean that I can't have social anxiety. Yeah, it's true, I meet up

with girls that I meet online and then sometimes I have sex with them. I go for lunch with them, I talk to them, but they're not complete strangers to me. I've been chatting to them for several weeks before I actually meet up with them, so they're not 100% complete strangers. I get to know them a little bit

before I actually meet up with them. And meeting a girl that I've met on Tinder is not the same as walking up to a complete stranger and trying to hit on her or trying to pick her up. It's not the same as going to a club and talking to a random girl and flirting with her. I can

talk to people online without any problems. You just type some buttons for text and then you press the send button. It's not the same as walking up to a stranger and opening your mouth and saying words. And when I do meet these girls from Tinder or from the internet, I don't turn into this confident, charismatic guy, I'm

still me. I'm still really nervous. I'm still really uncomfortable and anxious about meeting them, about talking to them. I don't know what to say most of the time. A lot of the time we just sit there in complete silence because I'm terrible at making conversation. I'm a nervous wreck when I meet girls online, even if I have

been chatting to them for several weeks before meeting them. I have social anxiety, but it doesn't mean that I'm 100% incapable of meeting up with strangers or with people that I've never met before. I can actually force myself into meeting people that I haven't met before if I feel like it's worth doing. I feel more confident meeting

up with girls on Tinder because if they've agreed to meet up with me, then I know that they're interested in meeting me. I know that there's not as much chance of rejection as there would be if I just walked up to a complete stranger on the street and tried talking to her. None of you have seen me

in real life. You don't know what I'm like in real life. This is what I'm like when I'm by myself, when I'm making videos. And when I'm in, in the public, in front of people, or in some kind of social setting, I'm a completely different person. I feel comfortable right now because I'm alone. I'm by myself. There's

no one here. If there was someone in the room right now, I wouldn't be able to talk like this. I would be more nervous. I would be stuttering more. I would take longer to form sentences. That's the second irritating thing that some people were saying. They were saying, how can you have social anxiety when you make videos

on YouTube and thousands of people watch your videos? And that's because, like I said earlier, I'm by myself. If there were people in the room, I wouldn't be able to make videos. Right now, I don't feel like I'm talking to anyone. I'm talking to my phone. My phone is an inanimate object. It's not a person. I know

people are going to watch this video after I've uploaded it, but after I've uploaded it, it doesn't really matter if people watch it or not. Well, it does, but to me it doesn't feel like loads of people are watching me talk. I just see numbers ticking up on the screen. It doesn't feel like actual people are watching.

I know this is going to sound stupid, but I don't really feel like people are watching me anyway. When I upload a video, I see numbers go up as views, and then I get comments. And when I see people commenting, I know real people are leaving those comments, but to me it's just a text, some text where

your username is, and it doesn't really feel like you're a real person. It's like when I used to play World of Warcraft. I didn't feel like— I didn't imagine that I was actually playing with other people. It felt like I was playing with this undead guy. It felt like I was playing with this orc. It felt like

I was playing with this troll. I didn't picture myself playing with other human beings. I don't have any problems with talking to a camera about personal problems and then uploading it to YouTube. But if someone asked me to stand up on a stage in front of thousands of people, do you think I could do that? There's no

way I could even be capable of doing that. I would have a mental breakdown. There was this person who left this comment, which is really dumb, and I don't want to call you an idiot, but this is the stupidest comment I've ever seen. You don't have social anxiety. I don't even think you really know what social anxiety

is. You fuck tons of women off Tinder, meet up with YouTubers like JapaneseFromZero and David Bond, and go to clubs and broadcast every detail of your life on YouTube. Number 1, how dare you say that I don't have social anxiety? How dare you say that I don't know what it is when it's plagued me for the last

18 years of my life? I wish I didn't have social anxiety. Why would I pretend to have social anxiety or think that I have it when I didn't? It's like if someone with depression came up to you and said, I have depression, and then you just say to them, oh no, you don't have depression. I think you're

just sad sometimes. I don't think you even know what depression is. Shut up. You're not that person. You don't know what they're thinking or feeling. You're just judging them based on the little interaction that you've had with them. So yeah, anyway, I've already talked about women from Tinder. Meet up with YouTubers like Japanese from Zero and David

Bond. Yeah, it was like I said before, I talked to them for weeks and weeks before I actually met up with them. And the only reason why I decided to meet with them was because I saw their videos and I could kind of tell what kind of people they were, and I felt comfortable with meeting them. It's

not exactly the same as meeting a complete stranger that I just met in a pub. I couldn't walk into a pub and then start having a conversation with a complete stranger. And go to clubs. I went to one club with David Bond because he persuaded me to go with him. I don't go to clubs at all. I've

been to 2 clubs in my entire life, and I hated both experiences. I broadcast every detail of my life on YouTube. Yeah, that's true. But like I said before, I'm just talking to a camera, and the people that watch my videos, I don't really see as people. I just see them as text on screen. Here's another stupid

comment: I don't know if your channel is a social experiment or what, but I cannot understand how you can be having social anxiety and having sex with random women from Tinder at the same time. If you can't understand that, then you obviously don't have social anxiety, or you don't understand what social anxiety is. It's like I said

before, chatting to women for several weeks on Tinder and then meeting up with them isn't the same as going into a club or a bar and then chatting up a random stranger. The amount of anxiety that I feel really depends on the situation or the person I'm with. For example, if I'm with someone who, who's like the

Canadian guy, who's confident, outgoing, positive, then I feel perfectly fine. I feel comfortable. But if I'm with someone who's also very shy and quiet, then I start to feel very uncomfortable because I'm also very shy and quiet, and it becomes— it just becomes very awkward. There's some situations that I can handle better than other situations. For example,

I have no problems going into McDonald's and ordering a Big Mac, but when it comes to going into KFC or Subway it's a completely different story. It's very frustrating when people who don't even know me on a personal level, they don't even know me very well, or they don't even have any experience of what it's like to

have social anxiety, they tell me that I don't know what social anxiety is or that I don't have social anxiety just because I do this and I do that. Yeah, I make very personal videos on YouTube, but this is just one side of me. You don't know what I'm like 100%. You don't know what I'm like when

I'm off camera. Unless you've met me in real life, then you can't really say that you know me very well.