For example, I’m an elementary Ed major with severe social anxiety and social deficits around people my own age. I also work in memory care, have gotten bruises and scratches left on my body, have taken care of dying residents and called many ambulances, and I didn’t freak out. I love kids, and I’m incredibly confident in my ability to communicate with them and take care of them. I have a work study in a school and all my students regularly run up and hug me and fight about who can read with me. But last night I got severely anxious during a presentation and my professor left a comment on my evaluation that said, “It’s okay to be anxious. I hope you can work on it and not let your student see” I understood why she made it but it just really bummed me out. How do you guys maintain confidence when people make untrue assumptions about you? Especially when those assumptions are based on things your insecure about?