I completely agree with you. It was the same for me in high school. I was labeled as "shy", even though I didn't actually feel shy at all and wasn't shy around my friends.
When I was a kid I felt intimidated by a lot of different groups of people. My parents were extremely strict (and a wee bit abusive), so I felt quite uncomfortable around adults. I lived rurally and didn't have neighbours close by, so I didn't have as many opportunities to be around a lot of other kids, except for at school. And of course, like so many young people, I felt intimidated by other kids who were better-looking than me. But I so badly wanted to be really social, it was just that I didn't have the courage or the skills to make it happen yet.
Is it normal to only sometimes be shy?
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I completely agree with you. It was the same for me in high school. I was labeled as "shy", even though I didn't actually feel shy at all and wasn't shy around my friends.
When I was a kid I felt intimidated by a lot of different groups of people. My parents were extremely strict (and a wee bit abusive), so I felt quite uncomfortable around adults. I lived rurally and didn't have neighbours close by, so I didn't have as many opportunities to be around a lot of other kids, except for at school. And of course, like so many young people, I felt intimidated by other kids who were better-looking than me. But I so badly wanted to be really social, it was just that I didn't have the courage or the skills to make it happen yet.