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GaWx said:
I'm curious. Would anyone here admit to having social anxiety? I have had it all my life.
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Pretty sure I've talked about the first part of this before in here plenty, but it's worth the story again anyway.

On the day I was born, my mom had a stroke not long after my birth, and it was due to medical malpractice (the OBGYN that oversaw her pregnancy blew off preeclampsia symptoms, and got stripped of his OB abilities because of that since my parents filed a lawsuit). She has been confined to a wheelchair since and my dad retired very early to take care of her. So, early in my life, before I was school age, I had very little contact with young children my age. Outside of a friend of my parents that had a young child that was my age, that was it.

Fast forward to 2000, my parents take me to register for kindergarten. I did not say a word to the kindergarten teacher. It was thought initially that I was delayed which got me placed in special ed, but since I had little contact outside of family, it was really that I was too shy to say anything, and it did not take long before they placed me in regular classes. Then sometime in 1st grade, I was removed entirely from the special ed things in school.

The very little contact deal did hurt me a little very early in school. I then got over it for a few years, then puberty hit me like a sledgehammer. The teasing over me looking like I had a pregnant stomach as a 12 year old, among other things, really set me back. Hindsight says, looking back on that several years ago, I really needed to speak up for myself and get myself out of that class (in my area of Georgia over a decade ago, you switched in teams and the people didn't change in the classes). I had been moved out of that same class in 6th grade (for a reason I can't remember) and was put in a class that had some pretty nice kids. I made several friends in that class and was really enjoying myself.

But I think I was too embarrassed to speak on that. It's a shame, because I could sense early that I didn't fit in with the class that I initially was put with and suddenly moved out of in 6th grade. So, 2 years of misery. High school was much better for me, but I don't think I started to truly pick myself up and kind of move on until I was 17. From there I had other problems with math, which is still haunting me some as of today.
 
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GaWx said:
I'm curious. Would anyone here admit to having social anxiety? I have had it all my life.
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Mine has gotten worse as I have gotten older. I was always the social butterfly growing up even through my 20’s.. The last few years going into my 40’s I get extremely anxious when I am heading into an environment where there are multiple people “crowded” together.. Never really understood why now but it’s how it is..lol
 
GeorgiaGirl said:
Pretty sure I've talked about the first part of this before in here plenty, but it's worth the story again anyway.

On the day I was born, my mom had a stroke not long after my birth, and it was due to medical malpractice (the OBGYN that oversaw her pregnancy blew off preeclampsia symptoms, and got stripped of his OB abilities because of that since my parents filed a lawsuit). She has been confined to a wheelchair since and my dad retired very early to take care of her. So, early in my life, before I was school age, I had very little contact with young children my age. Outside of a friend of my parents that had a young child that was my age, that was it.

Fast forward to 2000, my parents take me to register for kindergarten. I did not say a word to the kindergarten teacher. It was thought initially that I was delayed which got me placed in special ed, but since I had little contact outside of family, it was really that I was too shy to say anything, and it did not take long before they placed me in regular classes. Then sometime in 1st grade, I was removed entirely from the special ed things in school.

The very little contact deal did hurt me a little very early in school. I then got over it for a few years, then puberty hit me like a sledgehammer. The teasing over me looking like I had a pregnant stomach as a 12 year old, among other things, really set me back. Hindsight says, looking back on that several years ago, I really needed to speak up for myself and get myself out of that class (in my area of Georgia over a decade ago, you switched in teams and the people didn't change in the classes). I had been moved out of that same class in 6th grade (for a reason I can't remember) and was put in a class that had some pretty nice kids. I made several friends in that class and was really enjoying myself.

But I think I was too embarrassed to speak on that. It's a shame, because I could sense early that I didn't fit in with the class that I initially was put with and suddenly moved out of in 6th grade. So, 2 years of misery. High school was much better for me, but I don't think I started to truly pick myself up and kind of move on until I was 17. From there I had other problems with math, which is still haunting me some as of today.
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You may have problems with math, but you are blessed with a gift of prose ... ? ...
 
So, if people merely type the word "prayers" in a post that addresses a city having been hit by a tornado (I've seen it several times), is that enough to negate the fact that some of those same people were rooting for severe wx in earlier posts? I mean come on.. Nobody is going to convince me that many posters haven't been openly rooting on this severe wx outbreak. If someone roots on severe wx, that means they care more about getting the severe wx than the risk of people getting killed.
 
GaWx said:
So, if people merely type the word "prayers" in a post that addresses a city having been hit by a tornado (I've seen it several times), is that enough to negate the fact that some of those same people were rooting for severe wx in earlier posts? I mean come on.. Nobody is going to convince me that many posters haven't been openly rooting on this severe wx outbreak.
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Where has anyone been rooting for severe? I haven't seen a single person
 
GaWx said:
I'm not so stupid as to believe this post of yours.
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Ignorance. I knew you were trying to call me out with out actually referring to me by name. Quote any of my post for this event where I am "rooting" for Severe weather. You won't be able to because I haven't. Theres a difference in being interested in weather and actively cheering for it.
 
I don't understand why it takes so long for the SPC to issue watches lately. It's been like that for the last couple of years.
 
Snowflowxxl said:
Ignorance. I knew you were trying to call me out with out actually referring to me by name. Quote any of my post for this event where I am "rooting" for Severe weather. You won't be able to because I haven't. Theres a difference in being interested in weather and actively cheering for it.
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You're not going to convince me that many here, including yourself, aren't being entertained by this due to this interest. But the concern I have is not so much that as much as when I then see the word "prayers" (you're not the only one) after a city gets hit by a tornado. It just seems insincere. Maybe I'm taking this the wrong way but that's my gut feel fwiw. It doesn't seem to go together right.
 
Wow the HRRR was straight garbage today for my area. Total bust . Not saying that’s a bad thing but it was way off
 
There is a video leaked of interrogation trying to find out information of the Bat that caused all of this Coronavirus..??

 
MNGR PLZ...or Does anyone know how much we are getting paid for being up at 4am to discuss the weather yet?
 
If you're a NASCAR fan, check out what Kyle Larson said last night in an iRace.

OOPS
 
Man I had zero intentions of actually being awake early this morning. I thought about it but decided against it. Yet I still woke up twice in the 1-4 AM time period. The first time I just went back to sleep, the second time I laid quietly for a few minutes to try to do the same, then decided to check time and the progress of the storms since I was hearing distant thunder and surprise...there's two tornado warnings headed east on the line that would get near, one looking as if it could get questionably close.

Not long after that incident, even if I had tried to simply head back to sleep, my mom's phone in the other room went off with tornado warnings due to the emergency alert system (she didn't turn it off), so that would have jerked me out of drifting off, and then the tornado siren for the community went off about 10 minutes later. I was puzzled the whole time it went off, then my maps updated and it was that we were just placed under a tornado warning.

I was not happy about that at all. The nighttime threat had really driven home into me, so I actually was starting to shake from nervousness. It didn't help that I was eyeing the radar closely on my tablet, trying to determine for sure if whether I should stay in bed or go sit in the hallway, and was watching how that cell that was getting too close for comfort was looking like it was hooking even on regular radar. I wasn't certain, but then the power blinked. So, I did go sit in the hallway for a little while, and I'm pretty sure I was listening to whistling winds along with heavy rain and thunder.

10 minutes of sitting there, and then it started calming down quickly. It was about around then when I saw that the NWS radar confirmed a tornado near my community. It really would not surprise me if they end up confirming one later today, that hook that was noticeable to me on normal radar makes it a real possibility.

If they do, I believe the worst of that "hook" missed me by mere miles. At the very least, there's probably wind damage somewhere near me and I might do a little driving around to look this afternoon.

Either way, that was not fun, and let's not do it again. By the time this was over with, I was pretty wound up and my heart was aching. I'm sort of imagining as I type this here that if it had been daylight, it might have looked like a whiteout outside at the peak like it had with a very strong storm that had no warning from last year, yet it felled a tree up the road.
 
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