I'm very shy and self aware constantly
of my lazy eye, it really makes me
nervous to try to look at people so i look down all the time and get anxiety,

I was born a shy baby and have stayed that way ever since. The doctor once thought my mom had a miscarriage cause I wouldn't move around inside her or anything like babies normally do. Anyhow, for me it's gotten worse over the years b/c ppl keep pointing it out to me and making it so obvious that I have to do something to 'fix myself'. So now i'm more aware of my problem and it's made me very insecure. Sometimes I just wanna runaway and go live in the mountains as a hermit :(

I guess it was because I was the one who was always picked on in school, plus it was always the guys who would pick on me... Never girls.. XD I guess that's why I can never talk to guys lol. But also cause my dad was very..... Vocal, He has a very loud voice so that used to always scare me, plus the fact that he weighs over 200 pounds ^^'.... Yea I think there's alot more but it'll take up too much space lol.

It's a comibination of things. Being abused at a young age by a 'friend', moving to different towns & getting picked on in school.

I've gone through life feeling that people just aren't worth it. I only talk to people when I really have to.

I think that because I came from a totally dysfunctional family and I was the one that got the blunt of everything that happened blamed on me that I am afraid to let people in. I have repeatedly let people in and been stomped on. I am a easygoing person and I am a people person and people just take advantage of me. I need to strengthen my boundaries and only allow strong people into my life. I need to quit picking people that need help and find someone willing to help me

I guess it was a combination of family problems and slightly over zealouus protection during my early childhood which are probably crucial contributory factors to my shyness.

i cuold never do anything unless my ma meet the parents.what was really embarrassing was i had to call her and ask if i could go out with my cousin.now i look back and see she was not the best person to hang out with.i do have anxiety but not being able to go out when you have the nerve to go sucked.i was only in school 1,6,7,and 8 grade but when i went to high school i fliped and now i dont know how to act round people.i get freaked out.

my shyness come from my past and ablited to not be happy as a teenager I had no one as a guy I have no one but I'm learning to toget on I've taken a lot of meds I have one that works and now I'm working to my gols and maybe one day I will find a girl frined because now I'm ready to lisstern and restion and trust gave it time and thing will move I still have along way to go I still feel the pain and shame but that the past and my skill to deal with those memory are improving as time goes on each day is a new day to learn

I'm not really sure why I'm so shy. No one in my family is shy, everyone is quite outgoing and social.

I would like to say that my shyness stems from all the bullying I received while in school, but I can remember being shy even before attending school. Maybe it's just a personality trait I've been born with, or maybe it's the fact that I don't feel comfortable around others; as if I'm not equal to them. *shrug*

I believe the reason I am shy is because I really dont know my own potential. I am somewhat insecure. My parents were great and school was ok as I was growing up. I think that I rather observe than talk. To many people in one room drain me sometimes

Hello, I think your feelings
are 100% validatable, that was an intelligent and caring in my opinion way to share your feelings.

hiya :) i guess i am shy cos i was allowed to get that way. i was never really encouraged to socialse and so would spend a lot of time by myself. plus events in my life made me lose confidence and made me withdrawn. i have been shy all of my life.

i still don't know why i'm shy but i have been for 9 years and i'm only 16 i think it might of had to do with me getting into new school it scared me and then me and my older brother were left alone one summer cause my mom went back to work and my stepda was at work so we just eat the whole day cause we couldn't go out so then i got over weight and i think that is where my shy came in cause i didn't feel pretty or i just kept to myself

Great question because I was just pondering it myself! I really don't know. I think part of it has to do with feeling pestered. I come from a nest of pests. They were always like, "Why don't you want to do this? Go do this, you'd like it!" It would make me angry because I wanted to be left alone. Sometimes I didn't know what I felt like doing and I needed time to think about it. So I'd just tell everybody to go leave me alone I didn't want to do anything. Maybe now I'm shy that people will want answers from me that I don't have.
And when I was at my gym tonight, I thought that I kinda liked just being lost in the crowd. I would be worried if I was expected to go and be available to have a conversation with the people around me. When I go out anywhere I feel like I should wear a tag that says, "Don't talk to me right now, I'm busy doing what I'm supposed to be doing. You'll only distract me and I'll get all side-tracked!" I feel like if I have something I need from you, I'll go talk to you. Otherwise it's like don't come find me.

I am naturally introverted and anti social but also have social anxiety disorder (which runs in my family).