Re: the personal/professional overlap of writing, my most common anxieties are "is this person my friend or do they just see me as a professional connection?" and "have I been downgraded from connection to acquaintance b/c I'm not producing enough or is my friend just busy?"
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Part of what exacerbates the problem for me is that I'm both a socially anxious extrovert and a presently undersocialsed one - meaning, I don't get to see my friends (and especially writer friends) often enough IRL, which tends to stress and upset me further.
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Throw in the fact that many of my writer friends are introverts, and I'm constantly anxious that I'm reaching out too much, bothering them, nagging them to hang out when they're busy. Which means that slow or non-replies make me start to worry, in turn, that I've lost a friend.
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I try to be rational about this. People have lives! Not everything is about me! I'm the extrovert, so it makes sense I'd be the one reaching out more often! But when people seldom or never make a reciprocal social effort, it makes me worry I'm being tolerated only as a contact.
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Aw, makes me glad I've been reaching out even though my brainweasels are like, "Foz is too busy doing Important Writer Things to chat"
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