I realized I am socially awkward at work

[Ninja_pig]

22 hours ago, DefinitelyNotARobot said:

For me, these feelings of being socially awkward, are just the voices of my parents who would always tell me that I did this wrong and that wrong and so on and so on. This made me adopted a pattern where I'm constantly over-analyzing everything I say and do in social scenarios. What has helped me is to become aware of how I had subconsciously adopted the thought patterns so that I could then make the conscious decision to change how I talk to myself. It's a slow process because it also requires one to work through all the trauma/karma that is associated with these thought patters, which can be emotionally taxing, but the result will be that social interactions will be less emotionally taxing in general.

This might not resonate with you personally. This is just my little anecdote.

This is actually exactly what happened with me.

[Byun Sean]

you just need more experience socializing. 

Its normal to care what others think a lot in the beginning. Overtime you won't care as much.

 

As long as you keep socializing you will eventually get better and see improvement if thats what you want.