Catnipthief Rygar said:
»That sudden and horrible realization that...

I'm very open on here but in person... newp... I am very shy and quiet lol.
I'm very shy when in a new situation or meeting new people... like here I knida just edged in over a couple months. This also makes meeting new people hard because I tend to avoid, well, meeting new people : (
Nothing to say you guys can't be the same person face-to-face that you are on the forums. :D Maybe I'm weird but I honestly think a lot of my facial expressions are based on smileys/emoticons and not the other way around. XD And all my friends always say I'm really expressive, so maybe it's an advantage lol^^
I don't know if my social anxiety counts as shyness, but yeah, I get screwed over by it.
While I was in high school, I was diagnosed with acute social anxiety that lasted through my sophomore year of college. x.x Regular nightmares about social situations, fear of forming relationships, the whole 9 yards. :X
I feel like for each person who has this problem, there exists a specific way of dealing with it. All you have to do is find it. :D For me it meant realizing that I had really *** up my life by being closeted and that I had to just get over it if I wanted to put the pieces back together. So I did. :o Barely even peed myself in the process too !
lawls
Edit~
I always end up being afraid to talk to someone one on one because I can't for the life of me keep a coversation going.
One of the signs of true intimacy is being able to spend time in another person's presence without feeling awkward even if there's silence. So if you've talked to someone for so long that you've run out of things to say, maybe it's not really a big deal after all. :D