What makes posting hard?

[Moonlight 7,288]

got that sweet social anxiety disorder 

been slowly working on it but i've been like this since i was young so...

[Magic Note 2,750]

I also have social anxiety and it's a quite severe case of it.

[Oblivion 20,271]

posting is very easy so nothing is hard about it.

[Clawdeen 15,519]

Randomly posting and reviving threads are easy for me. If anything I get bored finding things to revive and post in.

One of these days I'll make a thread I can regularly post in and entertain myself with.

[Sparklefan1234 172,984]

What makes posting hard for me is seeing the avatars of friends who aren't here anymore. 

[EpicEnergy 23,224]

My freakin' brain! Like I'm posting something and my brain is like "what if this offends someone, what if this doesn't make sense, what if no one cares" like bro be quiet just let me post it already! I overthink quite often and have anxiety, so those two things make it hard for me to post sometimes.

Also my mood makes it hard sometimes as well, like if I feel down or not ready to socialize I am usually quiet.

[Rainbow Cloud 18,337]

Shyness, nervousness and lack of confidence are kind of the main ones for me, I'm better with replying to threads that already exist than starting them though.

Edited October 5, 2023 by Ninetales

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,114]

Knowing that you have to obey the rules.  

[Clawdeen 15,519]

On 2023-10-05 at 2:02 PM, Clawdeen said:

Randomly posting and reviving threads are easy for me. If anything I get bored finding things to revive and post in.

One of these days I'll make a thread I can regularly post in and entertain myself with.

I forgot I meant to do that

But it's still this response

[Sparklefan1234 172,984]

What makes posting hard for me? Finding something to say in topics that doesn't make me sound weird or dumb.🙃

[Dawnshine Wonder 401]

The hardest part is probably not upsetting someone else, if we make a critique about a show or movie, anything, the key is to get our point across without making it sound like we're not giving it credit where it is due. Negative reviews are easy to make, to be fair and balanced about it, is a different matter altogether. People can be understandably critical about certain characters in My Little Pony FIM, but they can also be overly critical about it. Most people don't even have a degree in anything to do with mental health, I don't either, but at least I don't go making over generalizations about what Princess Luna was going through in episode Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep. She was carrying some deep emotional baggage from her fight with her sister so long ago, those unresolved issues, she had no one to talk to about it as at this point in the show, she did not want to put her problems on everyone else. Was it logical to create Tantabus to torture herself? no, and that's exactly the point, self harm, is not logical, ever, and that's why she earned sympathy, not because of self harm, she doesn't deserve this, what earned her sympathy was her genuine remorse.

[Dreambiscuit 10,171]

I used to be on another forum before I made MLPF my permanent home, and my threads were always summarily locked, no matter how much care and consideration went into them. As a result, I stopped posting threads for years (see my previous posting in this thread). But then I got over it and started posting threads again and everything was fine. Being on a good forum seems to make all the difference, and I overcame my crushing sense of inadequacy. It isn’t hard at all anymore.

[DubWolf 17,382]

Ya know, feeling like I'm just voicing my thoughts and not actually having a conversation or discussion . Unless I say something worthy ... that I can boop myself over lol.

[KPackratt 372]

Most of the time, it's hard for me to find good threads to respond to. There were also times where I came to a thread and forgot what I wanted to type in my response once I opened it up.

[abronymouse 5,879]

I don't find it hard generally, manely because I don't have the second worry in the OP 

not knowing what people want to nicker about or not wanting to whicker about the same chaff is the mane thing. 

 

[Snoopy Fan 1,708]

I’m sometimes afraid of saying the wrong thing.

[Dawnshine Wonder 401]

14 hours ago, Snoopy Fan said:

I’m sometimes afraid of saying the wrong thing.

We're human and we try, that is the important thing. If we make a mistake, we cannot change the past, but we can grow from it, that's all we can do. And if other people are capable of empathy they will see that you're trying.