public speaking

[-:Undertaker:-]

is anyone good at public speaking or speaking infront of a group?

i was soooo shy as a kid in school and even though i had a great time there like i remember how daunting it was being asked to read or stand infront of a class or even walk into an assembly i remember DYING inside lmao.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/grow-shy#.vg6yWKBWj

but yeah in uni i grew out of it and didn't have a problem with speaking in groups or doing presentations standing up. infact i kinda liked it...... in class discussions i dominated cos everyone else was so quiet.

how about you or do you still die inside

[thms]

i'm not really nervous with it but sometimes i mispronounce words or just end up speaking jibberish like hello i'm thomaflahduhslah

[-:Undertaker:-]

i'm not really nervous with it but sometimes i mispronounce words or just end up speaking jibberish like hello i'm thomaflahduhslah

that's just your homo lisp hun

[thms]

that's just your homo lisp hun

oh for **** sake :/

[lemons]

i hate it next week i have to speak in front of over 200 people

[Alysha]

No I'm awful, I speak too fast and fall over my words. I'm not even that great in 1on1 situations either I guess. University didn't help.

[Gina]

I love it
in my old school I did an assembly to the whole school but surprisingly enjoyed it
find it quite fun
in year 7 and below i was SO shy tho just grew more confident in terms of speaking n whatev as years went on
i was gonna go an assembly at my new school cos someone pulled out last minute so they needed someone to help but they rly needed a geography student and i didnt even do it for gcse let alone a level lmfao
but love love love

[Cerys]

I haaaate it, I end up stuttering and shaking so much it's awful

At the start of this year in uni we had to do a class on public speaking where we practiced techniques etc, and it's continuing all through next yr I'm dreading it

[Empired]

I used to be so shy I couldn't stand even to read in like English class or something in front of my peers. It was awful and I'd start to panic even if I was just thinking about it.

I had 10 weeks of CBT for social anxiety over the summer which was fantastically successful and then sixth form and got a job found everything had just changed. I would happily talk up in class and found I was often the one who answered a large majority of the questions because nobody else would - I remember my sociology teacher thanking me at parents evening because otherwise her classes were so awks lol.

I can talk in front of people and I don't feel nervous but it's very annoying because my knees always shake, and my hands shake sometimes too which is really embarrassing because people must think I'm scared. Don't know how to stop that happening either as I'm genuinely not afraid so it's not like breathing slowly (which I'm obviously already doing) will help.

But yeah. Really really shy people over the age of like 12 annoy me now. I can understand not liking public speaking as it's really not everyones cup of tea but the girl I used to sit next to in English would shake like a leaf and you could see her mouth going dry and she'd stutter and stutter if the teacher asked her a simple question (and it wasn't that she didn't know the answers, she was smart and she always had something to say) and it would just frustrate me because like ???? get a grip? Speaking is part of life.

I don't know, looking back over how debilitating my shyness/social anxiety was embarrasses me because I think it's just an extension of vanity now. I know it's not the same exactly but "oh no everyone's looking at me WHAT HORRORS MUST THEY BE THINKING" is just an absurd, self-centered notion to me these days.

[Alkaz]

Yeah I hated it all through school and sixth form, however when I got to university, the woes and anxiety I used to have just seemed to disappear. I'm fine at standing up in front of people and talking about stuff. I do however still get a bit tongue twisted and then develop a tiny stutter if I am talking about something I don't really know about.