omg lesson#79: if your social anxiety is crippling you, you may be outta luck.
listen, i'm a patient person. i may not have social anxiety, but i get it's a thing. i have friends who try to explain it to me. and i know the extreme efforts they go to, in order to overcome that anxiety and go to events. some even take medication to do it. i am always so impressed that they show up, just to socialize, b/c that's the way to meet kinky people and potentially a partner. but there's still no guarantee and they still continue to get out there. they do not whine endlessly about how a partner is not agreeing to meet them on their terms b/c of their social anxiety or shyness. b/c they understand life is not all about them. what i keep hearing from so many submissive men is they will only, maybe consider an event, if they can for sure meet dommes only. where the dommes at? the most oft quoted reason for being so deliberate about the events they would attend? b/c 'anxiety/shy' and couldn't possibly go to events to meet kinky people of all types. i...