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Olivia Munn thread: she suffers from social anxiety and trichotillomania

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scar tissue said:
As someone who suffers from (somewhat crippling) SA and knows a couple of other SA people, I find her "coming-out" to be quite infuriating. She's a (more or less) decent actor, anyone with actual SA wouldn't be able to be a successful actor. On top of that, she's popular and hot, and has a boyfriend with the same attributes. That's more than most people without SA can say. Go cry me a river.
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Yeah, there's that. It took me like 2 hours of standing in the room at California Extreme before I could really do anything. Tons of people in close quarters, LOTS of noise, and it was warm and stuffy. I wanted to bolt and go sit in the lobby where there was fresh air and fewer people. I had to basically stand there and just sweat it out (literally) until I finally crossed whatever that mental line in the sand is for it to be "ok" and no more anxiety. After that I was completely fine. When I went back later that night and again the next day it wasn't even a thing. But that first time was rough.
 
remnant said:
where is all her talent besides in her ass, which apparently is being questioned?
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I call that talent.
 
butter_stick said:
Considering the hero worship some women get on GAF for being attractive (and Christian Hendricks) it's really weird.
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I've noticed that women who appear more down to earth and attainable get a free pass. Usually your supermodel types are put under the microscope and scrutinized for the smallest things.
 
bud said:
i've only seen the first season of mad men and a few episodes of season two, but she didn't really strike me as a bad actor.

the only other work i've seen of her was that x-men clip where she blinks her eyes a lot, and yeah, that did look quite terrible.
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Her character in Mad Men feels like it was basically designed around her. Then you see her in other things and realise that's basically all she can do.

Still, she's hot :bow
 
I don't know much about her, other than she was some geek idol or something. But this is the 2nd article I've skimmed about her and in both she's talking about her harsh air force upbringing and how she's deserving of pity and stuff. Kind of whiny.
 
scar tissue said:
As someone who suffers from (somewhat crippling) SA and knows a couple of other SA people, I find her "coming-out" to be quite infuriating. She's a (more or less) decent actor, anyone with actual SA wouldn't be able to be a successful actor. On top of that, she's popular and hot, and has a boyfriend with the same attributes. That's more than most people without SA can say. Go cry me a river.
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What are you talking about? As someone who has suffered from a variety of anxiety disorders for most of my life, I can easily imagine how someone someone with SA could be a decent actor. Acting isn't a real interaction. It's entirely scripted. Almost everything you're doing is on the page. Hell, even someone like David Letterman is rumored to have severe anxiety issues and he's hosted successful talk shows for decades interviewing thousands of people.

As far as her looks, what the hell does that have to do with any mental illnesses she may or may not have? Hot people can't have problems?
 
I only 'hated' her because it seemed that the rest of the interent did. However watching her on the Newsroom (especially last weeks ep) I have decided to make my own opinion. Which is that she's pretty pretty pretty good.

Dat Japanese
 
scar tissue said:
As someone who suffers from (somewhat crippling) SA and knows a couple of other SA people, I find her "coming-out" to be quite infuriating. She's a (more or less) decent actor, anyone with actual SA wouldn't be able to be a successful actor. On top of that, she's popular and hot, and has a boyfriend with the same attributes. That's more than most people without SA can say. Go cry me a river.
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As some one who grew up with SA, I don't feel this way at all. Good on her for potentially overcoming her SA or at least managing it.

Second of all, like other's have said, why does her being 'popular and hot' matter?
 
I don't really have any opinion on this girl either way but I have to say I'm completely bewildered by her rapid ascent to fame.

It feels like just a year or two ago she was just some chick who gamers would bitch about for being on some stupid videogame and technology show on g4. Then she was on the daily show for what seemed like a grand total of 2 months where her bits could safely be called objectively terrible.

Now you hear about her being in movies, starring in an HBO show written by Aaron Sorkin and fucking Justin Timberlake.

How did she move up in Hollywood so quickly? I get that she is hot, but there are tons of hot girls who don't shoot to stardom in such a short period of time.
 
Blastoise said:
I only 'hated' her because it seemed that the rest of the interent did. However watching her on the Newsroom (especially last weeks ep) I have decided to make my own opinion. Which is that she's pretty pretty pretty good.

Dat Japanese
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Why not always form an opinion for yourself instead of taking someone else's opinion?
 
She's attractive, but there's something about how she always seems to be forcing a smile in every photo I've seen of her since she left G4 that I dislike (eg this: http://i.imgur.com/61bsq.jpg).

The bit of acting I have seen her do (outside of G4, where she was carried by her co-host most of the time anyway. Time not involving MC Hammer or balloons, that is) has been pretty bad, but I've yet to see Newsroom, so I have no idea how she fairs with Sorkin material.

winter said:
How did she move up in Hollywood so quickly? I get that she is hot, but there are tons of hot girls who don't shoot to stardom in such a short period of time.
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Rumours of her sleeping her way into jobs popped up right around the time she jumped from G4 to NBC/Timberlake, whether there's any truth to them I don't know.
 
Two things:
1) She is great on the Newsroom, also
2) I do not care how she got where she is now - but even if I did care, it still would be none of my business :P
 
SmokyDave said:
Ever since her 'naughty' photos leaked, I haven't been able to hear or read the words 'Olivia Munn' without pitching a tent. Girl is filthy.
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I had to google this and what is this I'm seeing?

"slide your perfect dick inside" etc etc. Holy shit, these are pure gold :D
 
I just have a hard time believing that somebody that acts like she does has a legitimate social anxiety disorder. Like how everybody with a harmless quirk thinks they have OCD (and should be damn glad they really don't), I can buy that she could be shy and self-conscious, but this...
 
revolverjgw said:
I just have a hard time believing that somebody that acts like she does has a legitimate social anxiety disorder. Like how everybody with a harmless quirk thinks they have OCD (and should be damn glad they really don't), I can buy that she could be shy and self-conscious, but this...
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As somebody who suffers from both social anxiety and OCD I could not agree more. She could be on a concoction of medication that works well for her I suppose.

She is incredibly attractive though.
 
I used to find her really attractive when I was in my early teens and she still is of course but her attitude really annoys me now. And I haven't seen much of her acting but what I did see wasn't very good.
 
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