Does anyone genuinely walk into a room of strangers and feel no fear?

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Anyone? I wouldn’t say I have social anxiety, but the thought of walking into a room full of strangers and having to make small talk would make me nervous. Curious to know whether this is normal or if it does mean I have some sort of anxiety around people?

I don't really. But there are lots of other things that fill me with anxiety instead !

It doesn't bother me. I will talk to anybody.

I prefer strangers than people I know.

I can give off the right friendly chatty vibes with strangers. People I know have already formed opinions of me which worries me more.

it doesn't bother me either. I enjoy it mostly.

Depends on the context.

Not fear as such. But I would be slightly apprehensive.

Stuff of nightmares for me OP

Doesn't bother me - I suppose I've done it a lot over the years and I'm 46. Do you mean all complete strangers, you don't even know one person?

Sounds perfectly normal. Though as I get older it's probably more CBA than nervous.

Happy to walk into a room full of strangers, spiders or mice. Not wasps though, you'd have to pay me a lot to willingly walk into a room full of wasps, even if they were drowsy.

Doesn't bother me. They're just people.

Exactly this

Exactly what I was going to say .

I don’t fear it but I don’t generally enjoy it. It depends on the situation though - if it’s work and I know I have to be polite and make meaningless chit chat with people I likely have nothing in common with and am unlikely to see again it’s just a sort of Monday morning feeling. If it’s a new hobby group or meeting friends of friends at a wedding when I don’t really know many people I quite enjoy it as I like finding out about other people.

I don’t get scared about strangers, job interviews, public speaking etc. I do get over peopled quickly though

It doesn’t bother me at all. I’m interested in whether I’m going to meet anyone interesting, and/or make a potential friend or useful connection, or just someone with a good story. Ie, I’m more focused on what I make of the strangers than what they make of me.

On the other hand, things other people do without being any kind of big deal fill me with fear and horror.

I don’t feel nervous in this sort of situation at all, but understand why others do

Depends on the situation. Walking into a room full of other parents at parents eve - fine. Walking into a room full of paying ticket holders expecting me to recite Shakespeare - harder.

I'm in the doesn't bother me camp.

I would be slightly nervous if there was other things riding on it, new colleagues at a new job, for instance.

But if its purely social, then I love it, to be honest.

Yep I hate it. Especially at work.

I genuinely don’t have any fear of walking into a room of strangers. Especially in work capacity as lots of opening questions. I do have the benefit of being able to make small talk with almost anyone and I do love chatting to people and learning more about them.

I like it! Might find a new friend!

Doesn't bother me but I would probably largely ignore most of them!

It depends if the other people are all relative strangers or know each other already. A work course for instance where we from all over the place is fine but a party where most people are in groups is horrible. I can be quite chatty in a roomful of strangers.

That’s part of my job! 😀 No fear here.