Peter CameronI felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.
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Not only is the pressure to be charming paralyzing, it can also lead to a sense of guilt for not being charming. It may even cause a person to apologize in advance in case he is judged by people who do not know him. If this is the case, then social anxiety may have been caused by a desire to please others.
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