Read on Twitter
My goal when I first came on twitter was to put myself out there and overcome my social anxiety. In all honesty I think that goal was met a while ago, I haven& #39;t felt anxious posting anything here in a long time.
That is definitely a credit to the people who follow me and are always so nice. And for seemingly no reason because I barely ever reciprocate any of that niceness, but thanks again to anyone who ever liked a tweet or commented something nice.
I& #39;ve been on twitter longer than any other social media before and it& #39;s definitely because of you. Anyway the point of this is to say that I won& #39;t be on twitter much any more because It doesn& #39;t bring me any joy.
I am glad I did this experiment and I think it helped me a little to understand who I am and what I like about myself, but I& #39;ve never been a social media guy and I think I always kind of knew that.
I& #39;m learning now in therapy a big part of having social anxiety is understanding whether you don& #39;t like something because your anxiety is keeping you from enjoying it or if you just genuinely don& #39;t enjoy doing the thing.
Now that I have no anxiety being on twitter, I understand it& #39;s the latter. I mean what was I even doing here anyway, making a lame pun once a week and liking someone& #39;s tweet because they liked my tweet so I felt like I had to.
I guess I still just don& #39;t really know how to be a person and that& #39;s a skill you should really develop before you come on twitter not after. I know doing this long thread makes it seem super dramatic. I know nobody really cares and nobody should care because it& #39;s really nothing.
But I thought I should at least have something up here if for some reason anybody wondered where I went. I& #39;m still planning to make youtube videos everyday, because I feel like it is helping me a lot with my ability to communicate.
It& #39;s just good to practice talking because I basically never do it. But twitter has outlived it& #39;s relevance for me, for now anyway. I& #39;ll still check it once in a while to see if anybody messaged me I guess.
But that might only be like one or two people. It& #39;s also nice to have a place to post a joke if I think of one instead of just telling it to my dog.
So anyway I think the best way to sum this thread up, and my experience on twitter as a whole, is to borrow from one of the great minds of our time Shania Twain and say "It was good while it lasted, but now I& #39;m past it" :)