Giving the performance of my life
Living with performance anxiety
6 min readJul 30, 2021
I’ve never been a natural performer.
And I mean that in the most general sense. As a child I wouldn’t even raise my hand in class even if no one else knew the answers and I did. And it wasn’t even so much out of any fear of being considered a nerd. It was that it felt like it would be a performance: I’d have to stand up to the…