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I'm basicly shy person.When I was 15 to 17 i didnt go out and during this 2 years i stayed at home even going to market was making me feel so bad I was feeling so shy.I was feeling everyone is wathcing me when I walk in street.

Then however I started to work as a weither.I was feeling realy embaresed.then I used to it!! I worked as a weither and barmen about 9 10 years.This job gives me so much power but I'm not working now and I feel shy as like when i was 17.This must be my aspie part basicly I could do so many progress but still same person inside.

Whatever i did gives me more power but never cured me.still feeling anxicius when I'm out..

Yes

Yes.

I assumed I was shy for most of my life, but I'm not. My issue is I just don't have any interest in interacting with most people and this comes off as being shy. If I am involved in something that interests me I am annoying outgoing.

No. I am introverted.

Isn't that shynes?


Introverted:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/introverted


1. a shy person.
2. Psychology. a person characterized by concern primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings (opposed to extrovert ).
3. Zoology. a part that is or can be introverted.

No. Shyness involves fear of people. Introversion is just a preference for one's own company. I'm not scared of people, they just don't interest me very much.


This page here has a paragraph on introversion vs shyness.

Also, http://amused-muse.blogspot.com/2008/02 ... s-shy.html

I'm not shy. Hell, for years I was the opposite of shy. Now I'm just sorta introverted.

So the dictionary was wrong then.

I wonder what other things they are wrong about in definitions?

The dictionary's not wrong, it's just not perfectly accurate. You can look up introversion, but a one sentence summary is never going to be as good as, say, reading everything Freud and Jung wrote.

I find I'm introverted and shy. I prefer to live in my own head, but the occasions when I have to venture outside can be painful and awkward. I found my shyness diminished as I got older. It went from spending six hours walking around outside a library too nervous to speak to the person on the counter, to giving talks and seminars. However, I still find myself unexpectedly paralysed at odd times, like when I have to call a stranger on the phone.

Are you shy?

I would rather not talk about it.

I don't think I'm really shy. I can be pretty outgoing if circumstances are right (or I'm a little tipsy), but mostly I just don't really have anything to say to normal people. It doesn't help that most people in the town I live in eat, sleep, and breathe college sports. *blegh*

We with our "affliction" are simply a new breed. Someday... we will be the dominant race. Do not associate with the enemy. "Shy" is only a word. We are much greater than it. Lest we be troubled-

I'm shy. I probably wouldn't be, except I figured out pretty early on that people didn't like me talking about my interests at length with them, so I just stopped talking to people about them period... from there I started worrying that I was breaking other taboos all over the place, and started over-analyzing every situation. And now I can hardly function in a social situation.

I only really get into social things if a friend is bringing me, or if I find it interesting. And I only really go with my friends because I figured it was supposed to be a normal thing they expected of me.

I'm kinda like that too.
I do like interacting with certain people or under certain circumstances
Difference is I'm also shy.

I'm not shy. I used to avoid going out, too, but that was because I had no friends to go with and it'd be boring to go on my own, and I didn't liek the loud music and crowds (for sensory reasos, not anxiety).