Originally Posted by
FDG
My shyness is strange.
I can easily start up a conversation with a stranger when I'm alone. Like, I'm on the train coming back from uni, with no people I know, and I almost always start up conversation with strangers.
On the other hand, when there are people I know around, I'm terribly shy in reagard to new encounters.
i have the same problem(but i've recently overcome it and started making friends with everybody/anybody, and my long lasting friends have come to expect it), and as a result i'm always making new friends and moving about socially. Does this inhibition you force on yourself when those friends are around you really bother you? I hate it. I usually am thinking about and trying to figure out how my friends are reacting to these new people, and guess their next line/subject, whatever. i think it may be due to having introvert friends, who when meeting new people tend to talk about themselves and present themselves to the new people, whereas I would rather get to know the new person. THOUGHTS GUY?