Winterleaves wrote:
I have been forced into helping to host some visitors for an event being held in my school. Part of my (compulsory) after-school activity. I'm particularly worried although I did this last year for these reasons: (I could handle it last year because it was only 1.5 hours long)
1. It's on a Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, and there are a lot of people and I need to approach them to offer them help. I'm terrible at that.
2. Although there are rest times (when the visitors are doing activities), the holding area is a lecture theater with about 30 people. Making a lot of noise because they're restless. So I won't be getting any "sensory breaks" to calm down.
3. I'm expected to be a gracious host the whole time. That includes a genuine smile, a cheery voice and worst of all, making eye contact with the visitors. I have none of these qualities.
4. Worse still, my seniors (in the after-school activity) are also involved in the hosting. If I can't do what is required to be a gracious host, I will get scolded for being rude to the visitors.
Are there any tips for helping to handle such a situation? (I don't have a dx so I can't get any help from the teacher-in-charge to cope)
I don't have a dx either and can imagine this situation. To be honest I doubt there's anything you can do, the guests aren't going to want to listen to medical information when they're there for something else and so they will pass you off as rude.
Perhaps you should catch an illness. Rub a piece of bread on the shower wall and leave it in an air tight jar until the day before the event, then open it up and breathe deeply. Actually, that's too drastic, you don't know what you might catch.
Maybe if you explained your social troubles it would help, if you have a friendly teacher. There really aren't that many options.
22 Mar 2010, 7:07 am
