Punctual, yes. Early? No thanks.

I used to have anxiety. Well, I still do, but now I have tools to deal with it. Life is great! I used to feel an urgency to be early to everything because walking in late would mean people would be watching me. Then, there was Stake Conference. Last year, we arrived early. We still didn't get a good seat, and then we had to entertain our kids for the extra time. On top of the already two hours they would need to sit still. Thbbbpt. So this year, we got wiser. As long as we could get there before the meeting started, no one would judge us for being late. We still got the bad seats, but we saved the effort of the extra time. And I was still in the hallway most of the time with the one-year-old.