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? asked in Family & RelationshipsFriends · 7 years ago

how do I make friends as a shy guy?

I am very shy and I have some friends that I have known for a long time back when I wasn't so shy. and even now my conversations with them are very awkward. I feel like I have some sort of "death look" that makes people avoid me, I am tired of people looking at me like I am the devil and I am tired of always being alone. I guess it doesn't help that my favorite outfit includes a hoodie where I always have my hood up. I just can't figure out how sociaty works, I have tried to get to know people in middle school and they would look at me weird after I say something, I don't even know what I said that was weird. but I just want to make some new friends. but the thing is, I like people like me (shy, quiet, calm) which is even worse for me meeting people. I hate people that are all bubbly, hyperactive, and loud. but they are the only kind of people that actually talk to me which they only talk to me for a couple seconds then get scared or something and leave me alone forever. please help me if you can.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Well I know exactly how you feel. I'm also very shy. Sometimes whenever I try to talk to someone they just ignore me because I'm weird and quiet but o well it's not me who we are talk Omg about it's you. Ok so if I were u I would try to be ur self around other people who have the same personality as u. I really wish I could help, but sadly I'm also having problems myself. Just hope you so good. Oh and here is something true. One time our principal put a video and showed how a shy person became the most famous actor. (True fact) So in the future you will be able to find other people who won't judge or think ur weird. :)

    Source(s): Don't have to.... cuz I have my smarts :) >.<
  • 7 years ago

    Depends on how shy you are.

    I'm so shy its rediculous.

    My dad always says if you are shy, you might go through hard times in life and you're always the last to get what you want.

    Kinda like when there's a buffe and people get that Smoked Turkey before me. Haha I can't even (wo)man up and ask for Turkey!

    Well, it might not be easy and you might need to push yourself just a little beyond your comfort zone but it's nothing you can't do! Just try to start conversations with people sometimes, or try to find people with similar personalities to you.

    I got my Turkey :) haha you'll get yours too! :P

    Good luck!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    been there. it sucked. there is a technique i was taught when i was 22 that i got mad at people for not telling me sooner. ok. you think/of all the people you never talk to and say to yourself you'll never meet anyone cool, then you think that you never did ever, now your old and about to die and your looking back in your life. now think of yourself as an old man who never talked to anyone because you were too shy. then picture youself that way and ask yourself what would you have done differently if you were still young. then snap out of it, realize your still young, and do what you said you'd do when you thought you were old. this technique works and i'm pist that no one has ever told me that when i was your age. you will feel better and know what to do.

    Source(s): the old man on his death bed technique that i learned.
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