I found a comedy skit by a YouTube channel called Smile Squad Comedy and they recently posted a video called “11 Signs You Have Social Anxiety”. This is a fun one where I go through each one for a laugh and to determine if I think it is a true sign of social anxiety or merely a misconception. Will you agree?
I found this comedy skit called 11 Signs. You Have Social Anxiety and it was made by this YouTube channel called Smile Squad. And basically what they do is they just do these little comedy skits about kind of like everyday life experiences. Um, some of 'em are a little bit more niche to where it doesn't apply to everybody, but they're pretty funny.
But with my channel being called, Social anxiety. Kyle, I had to watch this kid in particular and I thought together we could watch these and see if they are true signs of social anxiety or merely misconceptions of what people believe are signs of social anxiety. Watch these with me and laugh along the way because.
Honestly, these guys are pretty funny. This is honestly no. Hate 'em on them of like, oh, no misconception, or, oh yeah, I don't really care about that. I just thought it'd be fun to just watch this together and let's see what we think is a misconception, what we think is a true sign, and what are maybe kind of gray areas.
I don't know. I haven't watched all these. I watched the first two, so let's do it. If you like him, then just call him. I am your insurance and, and I am calling about your car's extended warranty. Oh my God. This one is probably one of the most common struggles I hear of people who struggle with social anxiety.
In fact, I. Think this was one of the things that was listed in that video. I posted a little bit back about things you can't do because of your anxiety answer phone calls. So I'm marking this as a sign of anxiety. Although to be fair, and maybe this is probably true with a lot of these that we're gonna go over today, that you can also have this and not.
Struggle with social anxiety as well. All right. I heard it was your birthday. Attention, everyone. We're gonna sing Happy Birthday on the count of three. One, two, three. Happy birthday. Oh, this reminds me of when my family would, you know, take me out to dinner for my birthday and then have you know, all the waiters and waitresses, the servers.
As they say, come and sing Happy birthday. Oh, you know, circling the table around me. Everyone's staring at me and the whole time I'm just thinking to myself, try not to make your face turn red Kyle. Did anyone else experience and do that too? I surely am not the only one. Another true sign of anxiety I should say.
I just realized that I'm probably doing this check mark backwards to you all. I need to do it this way. This right? Is this the check mark? Oh, I told you you would love this movie. It's so good. Yeah, it's cool. Constant third wheel. Now, this one I, I don't know about. I think my social anxiety kept me from being in this situation to begin with.
I'm sure I got into this from time to time, but. Surely it wasn't a common thing. Not, not, not for me at least. I'm going to give this one a X. Oh, I forgot to explain X for misconception. Sometimes I just have too much fun doing this, but maybe that's just my experience. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Did you find yourself getting in?
Constant third wheels or do you find yourself getting into currently constant third wheels? Me? No. You maybe, I don't know. Let me know in the comments before we go into the fourth sign. I do want to go over something with you all pretty serious, and it's something y'all have been commenting. Saying that I look like famous people, which I've never heard in my, like, I don't wanna say my real life cuz this is real up, but I'm talking my non virtual life, like my in-person life.
People I talk to, I've never had anyone say that, oh, do you know you look like so-and-so. But here on YouTube and other social media platforms I've had. Several people tell me that I look like famous people, flattering. I had somebody say, you know, I look like the kid from the movie The Sandlot. Now, it's been a while since I've watched that movie.
So I went and, you know, looked at the pictures of the kids and I thought, oh, it has to be this kid. He. Kind of looks like me, but after deliberation with this person, they said that I look like this kid. Honestly, I, I don't see it. I'm not sure what part of me looks like this person in particular, but it did make me burst out laughing when I read this.
So thank you for that laugh. That day, another one of you all said, I look like Luke Davidson, which is honestly closer than hand Porter. That kid from Sandlot. But still don't see it too much, although when I check out his channel a little bit, because yes, this guy's a big YouTuber. If you didn't know, I didn't know originally I thought this guy doesn't really look like me.
I mean, he has blonde hair, kind of similar facial features, but his hair is kind of big. It's like whoop way out there, which mine's getting there. I just got this fresh cut, but my hair isn't, is not that big. But if you look at some of his, I guess maybe older videos, like this one in particular, this one looks like me.
Like he's got the short hair. He almost has the same exact hairstyle. I bet if I really wanted to, I could probably make a Luke Davidson parody YouTube channel and just kind of. Bum off of his subscribers and just, I don't know what I'm saying, but I'm what, what I do mean is, I guess I do kind of look like this guy.
So let me know if I look like either one of these, because my self-confidence is writing on this or, oh, I need a refill. You're right back. No, wait, wait. Socialize please. No. Come talk to me. He's gonna come talk to me. Hey. They didn't. They didn't. You're stepping on my thing. I guess you can. Okay. I may keep this in.
I have to deal with this. Every time I record a video, one of these hooligan comes in and interrupts it every single time.
Get out. So sweet. Oh, I don't even remember where I'm at now. What am I doing? What did I just watch? Uh oh. Yeah. So anyways, I don't know about this one. I mean, yeah, I definitely didn't like being alone at social events when I was socially anxious, but at the same time, I still don't, I much prefer to be with others, but I can handle either.
Away. I'm just saying, I, I think this a lot of times is, is a preference thing. So when I'm reading off these signs, we're kind of going over 'em. I don't want you to go over these and be like, oh yeah, mark, I'm getting through all these signs. These are marking up with me. I must have social idea. It's not the point of this video.
It's just a fun video we're going through. You know, what is signs and what isn't, and. What I've experienced, what you haven't, it's a little bit different for everybody, but I will mark this as a sign with, so nope. With social anxiety? Yeah, social anxiety. Sign for social anxiety. Check. Marking it. I'm so good at YouTube.
We are three for four. So what a start. Oh no. He waved at me. What do I do? What do I do? Wave, wave, back, wave, vacuum, idiot wave. I'm thinking this is definitely a sign if you frequent the social anxiety subreddit, which if you don't, you should hop on there. I'll be on there. But anyways, if you frequent it, you'll see that probably 50% of the posts are of people posting things like are just like really overthinking, uh, something.
Pretty simple. And that's not the hate, that's just the truth. Not to say I didn't do that either, because I did. I'm gonna head to the grocery store. Do you wanna come? I'm sorry. I can't. Uh, I will just wait until you're able to. Why? Check out lines make me nervous. This is one of those ones I think of a lot of people it applies to, even if they don't struggle with social anxiety specifically.
For example, when my wife and I started dating before, well, we got itched. She used to always have to call me and be on the phone when she was in the grocery store. She didn't like just being in there alone and not talking to anybody, so it made her feel more comf comfortable, and less anxious. You know, being on the phone with me or you know, her mom, whoever.
And she never struggled with social anxiety. And thankfully she doesn't have to call me on the phone every time she goes to the store because I'm scared to talk on the phone. Oh my God. But I would also, so most people's social anxiety avoid going out alone, so, I guess I'll say social anxiety sign. Okay.
I really gotta work on this because I'm, I'm doing the check mark right now, but then it's going over my face. This, this is the money maker, so I can't be going over the face. You guys need see the face. All right, everyone. Today is our four and a half hour presentation on NFTs. Natasha, look, I know you probably hate public speaking if you have social anxiety, but I'm gonna label this in extra misconception, and here's why.
Because just about every single person on this earth has this fear, and not all of them have social anxiety, not even close. Thankfully, 77% of, at least the United States population has some form of anxiety regarding public speaking, and we can't pin it all on social anxiety. So like I said, I'm sticking with the, Hey, you ready to go?
I think I'm just gonna stay here. What? Why? There's just gonna be so many people. I know a lot of people relate to this, but was I the only one who was too anxious to cancel planes and yet ended up forcing myself to go out and do things? I can't be the only one. Am I the only one? Anyways, obvious check.
For social anxiety. Nailed at three. More to go. Um, what floor? Uh, the fifth. All right. Great weather we're having. Huh?
Well, have a great day. Oh my God, bro. Small talk is the worst, especially when there is no intention to further the conversation or get to know the other person. It's all just about avoiding silence, so you just end up talking about weather just to do that. You don't really give a crap about what I say and don't talk to me in the elevator.
What's the point of having a conversation with the stranger in the elevator for 30 seconds in which you are never going to see them again? Now, I don't wanna seem too pessimistic. I'm not saying you can never say anything. If you want to compliment somebody and make someone feel good while, uh, in the elevator, go for it.
Tell 'em they have a nice shirt. But don't sit here and pretend like you want to get to know me in 30 seconds and ask me questions. It, it is just a waste of your, my time and you're just avoiding silence. Tell me I'm wrong, that I, no. No, you don't want to actually talk to me. You're just uncomfortable with silence.
That's what it is. Be comfortable with the silence. I felt like I was in a meditation when I just did that. This sign makes me think of that progressive commercial though, where the, the dad talks to people on the elevator. You know what I'm talking about. Right? Come on in. The more the merrier. Paris, huh?
We got in the, out-of-towners in the elevator. Tom makes me laugh and think of my dad every time because my dad does stuff like this all the time, especially growing up. Oh man, it's, it's so cringey. I hated it back then. Now I love it cuz I think it's hilarious. He just tell, does stuff like that, uh,
stupid. Oh my God. Oh, okay. All right. Birthday. I'm Kurt. No, I I know we, we've gone to school together for like 10 years. Oh my gosh. Really? I'm so sorry. Oh, no. It's okay. I, I tend to avoid conversations. Bye 100%. Flying under the radar was my existence in high school. If it was a skill, I was the master of it.
I was a guru at it. This skit in particular makes me think of something that I learned just yesterday, and I need your, I need your input on this, so let me know what you think. And I'm being serious here. My 10 year high school, School reunion is next month. It's actually 12 years from when I graduated, but I guess the people who keep track of this, they forgot and we're doing it two years past the 10 year, but we're celebrating it as 10 year life.
Why don't we just celebrate it as 12 year? I have no idea. If you don't know my backstory, then let me sum it up by telling you. I talked to basically no one at this high school. To be clear there, there was a handful of people that. Were friendly to me that I could maybe talk to in class or would talk to me rather and would be nice, but I never necessarily considered them friends, more like a acquaintances.
And when I say I maybe talked to like three people, almost like friendly with three people, that's three people. Out of the 400 people in my entire. Class that I graduated with. Part of me wants to go to this thing because, well, it'll be uncomfortable. It's with people that I went to school with in the most uncomfortable time of my life, the most anxious time of my life that I never really talked to.
So I think this would be a really good, uncomfortable challenge to go and do this thing that I know will be uncomfortable for me. But the other part of me is, I know that the identical conversation that happened in the script, maybe not identical, but very close conversation that happened in the the script, the skit that we just watched is going to happen.
There will definitely be tons of people there that I went to high school with that. I probably remember and remember seeing and can recognize them. I may even remember their name, but I guarantee you most of them do not know who I am or will remember, man, they surely don't know my name, even though I'm YouTube famous and have a thousand subscribers.
What the hook? And I feel like this conversation is kind of awkward, which I'm okay with, but it's also gonna make them feel awkward being like, oh, like. You know, I feel like they're gonna be like, I feel kind of bad not knowing who this guy is, Kyle, that I went to school with. I mean, how do I even go about having a conversation with someone that I went to high school with that doesn't know that I went to high school with Ben?
Does that make sense? And maybe I just go and figure it out on the. Fly. Maybe I'm kind of going back to one of the skits we just covered where I'm overthinking. I'm open to hearing your thoughts and suggestions on this. It's also maybe an opportunity for some sort of challenge I can do myself and maybe even convert it into some content that I can share with you on YouTube.
I think this is too far good of a opportunity. I'll say. To like really like learn and grow myself and also share with you all and show you what I learned. I need to figure out a plan here and I would love to hear your all's thoughts on it. And I don't think I said it. So yes, social anxiety check. Dang it, I did it wrong, so.
So yes, social anxiety, check. Tell me about yourself. Where are you from? Uh, or I could tell you about me. Uh, love parties. Really big into talking, going out, trying new things. Socializing for me, I was most comfortable when other people asked me questions because this helped, you know, kind of start the conversation and helped me build a little bit more comfort with having a conversation with them.
But if you ask me in high school to. Go talk to somebody. Hell no. I don't know. I feel like 50% of people's social anxiety struggle with sharing kind of like in the skit. And then the other 50% are kind of like me and are like, please ask me a question so I can give you an answer. Cuz I, I know all the questions about me.
I, I just don't know how to, how to start the conversation and get it going. So I'm gonna say misconception. Thank you all for watching and I'm just gonna go ahead and say thank you for commenting and giving me all the love on my haircut. I mean, I know you haven't yet because I'm just recording this, but I'm assuming just comments are just flooding with haircut.
Looks fly. Kyle appreciate it so much. Also, what the haircut, who do I look like now? I know somebody on Instagram told me I look like somebody really big on Instagram and I can't remember who it was, but it was when I had short hair that they told me. So tell me who it was. Blonde kid, white skin, blue eyes, sexy as ever.
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