I have noticed an apparent paradox or it seems so to me.

It seems a lot of us are talkative even though we all
have social anxiety. I wonder why. I'm relatively new to the group, so
I don't know if its a lot of people have advanced a fair bit in
overcomng social anxiety or I have a particularly bad case of social
anxiety/phobia.

For people like me, I find it really difficult to initiate
small talk. So, it's a trial for me sometimes during our
Sunday meetings.

Maybe we could brainstorm ways to get more nervous people like me to
speak up more!

The paradox is that what our anxiety tells us is just plain wrong, we
can't run from our social fears, but face and deal with them...

I find our group meetings to be an exposure in itself, which is a
very,very good thing because it provides an safe and supportive
environment in which to escape our social shells.

I would appreciate anyone else's thoughts or questions.