questions from the peanut gallery: am i annoying?

i've been getting some random heckling in the comments section, so instead of continuing to answer them in the comments section i thought i might as well take it to the main stage.

Anonymous said...
Are you as annoying in person as you come across in your videos?

i don't think most people would describe me as annoying. i definitely was regularly described as annoying in my hyperactive youth, but i've done a pretty good job keeping that in check ever since i started becoming aware of social conventions around age 12. these days i think most people (at least those i don't know very well) would describe me as shy and quiet in person. i guess that's part of why i started this blog, you know? to give myself permission to be more free and open and take more risks than my strict internal censors will usually allow when i'm interacting with other people in person. it's fun - you should try it.

but i do think i can be a rather charming conversationalist, and pretty funny, when the mood strikes me, so maybe you'd find that annoying, if you're the kind of person who finds any expression of self-confidence annoying. if that's you, you would almost definitely be annoyed if you saw me singing karaoke, too. or doing a silly dance on the great wall of china when no one was around.