Quietly Brave: A Social Anxiety Memoir

♡ Niché Little Things That Annoy Me ♡

Do these things annoy you too?

✔️People saying "We need to talk" without explaining what it's about

✔️ Touching my personal belongings without asking

✔️Using public restroom stalls (I prefer to use the accessible bathroom but if I have to use a stall, I will make sure that no one is in the stalls before I go. So that usually means I'm spending more time in the bathroom than necessary).

✔️ The change rooms which have a curtain (There's always a gap on one side so you never have complete privacy when you're trying on clothes)

✔️ Sudden, unexpected noises like someone dropping something, a door slamming or a fire alarm

✔️ A roommate who sleeps through their phone alarm and keeps snoozing it

✔️ Construction work, especially jack-hammering 🚧 We had neighbours doing construction work for atleast 6 months, starting at 6:30am in the morning with them talking/clanking materials outside my bedroom window and then 7am they were jackhammering / drilling. I became an angry gremlin those mornings.

✔️ When family wake me up to give me a coffee / tea / breakfast in bed. This is a controversial one ; you might think it's sweet when people give you breakfast/coffee in bed but for me, it wakes me up before I naturally wake up and I'm alittle disappointed/annoyed when I don't get as much sleep.

✔️ Unable to leave a social event unless someone leaves first (I wait for a person to leave first so I can leave with them because I don't have the social confidence to leave on my own)

✔️ When someone rearranges my space

✔️ When someone uses sarcasm; just say what you actually feel so I don't have to try and read between the lines.

✔️ "Tell me a fun fact about yourself"

✔️ "Watching anime/animated movies/shows is childish" um, how dare you.