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Sam asked in Family & RelationshipsFriends · 10 years ago

Shy girl, outgoing friends? I feel stupid ): (kinda long) ?

I'm so confused. I'm a shy person who's being thrown into a group of girls who are all outgoing social butterflies who seem to know what to say at the right time. These girls have been my friends since 7th grade. We play volleyball together so it forces us to be together half the time and it's resulted in us becoming one big close group of friends. I'm not so timid around them anymore.. It took me until the beginning of this summer to though (were now juniors in high school) they are all really sarcastic and crack jokes left and right. And I just am the wallflower laughing along in the back and I feel really left out most the time. The way they make jokes is to make harsh insults towards each other and think of funny comebacks or just funny things to do in general but they usually make jokes about me, and I'm the easy target cuz I can't think of comebacks real quick and good so when I try I tend to make it awkward and become kinda hostile and I just feel so stupid. My confidence Is extremely low and Im pretty much desperate to fit in. I'm super insecure about enough things, but I wanna fix this. I wanna be one who makes jokes, not the one always getting made fun of ): I've talked to them about this before and they have said that I can't take them too seriously and they font mean anything they say but I get so down that I can't even fit in... What do I do??

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  • 10 years ago
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    you were talking about you or me? D:

    cuz that's just my life in highschool

    I have ADD, which is something that kept me from focusing on a certain subject

    if they're talking about something, or making fun or something

    I can't really focus or keep focused, therefore I can't really be into that convo or fit in the mood

    if you like them & you're happy with them, like you said "close friends" and you don't want to lose them

    or/and want them in your life

    then you just have to suck it all in

    by the time, you'll get used to it... and then.. and only then you'll be able to say the right thing at the right time

    confidence is important, convince yourself that you're so powerful, and they're just another human being, there are no differences but life experience "which you'll gain a lot"

    if you don't feel so funny, you will be

    everything will fade away by time, and you're not the only one whos gonna get used to it

    they'll too

    few years from now, you'll be beyond happy!

    what I did, was having the confidence when I'm being laughed at.

    and by the time I learnt the comebacks

    you don't have to be so hyper like them

    just be yourself, if you want to keep calm

    be so! its even more awesome, funny and powerful

    they're making fun of something and after a long speech about it

    you'll just say, cool story, I'm still awake, got more?

    and if they ask you.. YOU MAD?!

    say NO, YOU?!

    trolling is pretty much like an art, you'll master it... just remember, confidence, confidence, and confidence.

    you're alive, therefore you're awesome, healthy, looking great, you should be thankful!

    now, feel happy & smile cuz someday you'll remember this question and laugh about these days :)

  • 10 years ago

    First off, I know I don't know you, but you are a beautiful girl with a bright future ahead of you! You have amazing plans set before you and you have a purpose in this world, just like how you have a purpose of why you have been placed with this group of friends, but if they are bringing you down (and you have nicely confronted them about it) maybe it is time to find a new group of friends.

    About being shy, I was shy for the longest time, too. You just have to discover who you are. When you realize how special you are (because you are!), you will want to act in confidence. Don't feel like you have to be a good joke teller just because they are; find some other talent that you like to do, and have fun doing it! They will soon see how good you are at it and want to learn it too, just like how you want to learn their jokes. If the jokes are mean and degrading towards one another, it's probably best that you are not telling them anyways, because as you have experienced in your own life, they hurt. You also have to think about, though, that maybe your friends are insecure too...think about it... constantly having to bring each other down even though they say they are just doing it for fun...it's kind of like they are scared to be themselves and that they are hiding behind the jokes. Cut them slack because they may be going through the same thing as you, but never, ever, ever, let them bring you down. Girls can be MEAN, even if they are all best friends.

    Try to find somebody that you can relate to and express your feelings too so they do not get worse. You do not need to feel awkward or insignificant because those are just lies invented to make others feel better, or to simply just make you feel worse since you are capable of so much! Stand up straight and hold your head, just a little confidence, it makes a world of difference!

    :)

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You have to know that you are just as good as them and probably better in a lot of ways. Maybe you don't want to be involved in their banter because its rude, I have a very varied group of friends and I've learned how to treat them all with the amount of banter and name calling that their comfortable with.

    I can't give you jokes to join in with your friends with but I cant tell you that Confidence is huge. You need to know that you are an amazing person!! and if they can't see that it doesn't matter as long as you know it and as bad as it sounds maybe they aren't the right group of friends for you :( I have a really shy friend and we do stuff that we know she will enjoy as well.

    Sorry if this wasn't very helpfull

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I always want to be outgoing but everytime I try I feel kind of shy when I try to, my cousins are very outgoing and I not as outgoing because they are more bad and proactive but I'm kinda like you in a way so don't feel alone just be yourself, be more confident and when you do that you will become more outgoing.;)

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  • 10 years ago

    Everyone is different. a friendship would be boring if you guys were the same.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Outgoing as in "sluts"?

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