Look how many people are suffering from unbalanced nutrition. Should we sympathize with them because nature didn’t give them the tools to eat healthier, or question their choices?
News flash: most people suffer social anxiety to some degree, it’s called the human condition. I used to be a very shy introvert, which is a killer combination because being in your comfort zone feels so safe you never bother, or even dread, of acquiring social skills needed to interact with the world.
Work forced me to manage my shyness, but I’m still a proud introvert, and still experience moderate social anxiety frequently. I had to understand that getting out of my bubble was required for me to assertively manage other people, and though it was painful at first, it was not that different than practicing a skill you suck at.
I empathize with people who actually suffer from crippling anxiety from past trauma, but I have null sympathy for people who willfully neglected their own human growth ñ, and try to get on the train of mental illness to justify their decision.
People who label others as “normies” and “neurodivergent” need a reality check. Normies suffer social anxiety too.
About your first statement, doesn’t being bullied, or becoming afraid of being judged, count as trauma? Theres not a hard threshold beyond which abuse becomes trauma.
About the second, I took for granted that we were including anxiety disorder because this all started with brains doing an emergency shutdown because of a great deal of anxiety. Maybe it was hyperbole and I replied too quick, but I seriously hate when mental illnesses get taken lightly, they’re very serious and unfortunate conditions.