I really want to be an extrovert. I love partying and love to be the center of attention (when it's good), but I just succumb to awkwardness and speechlessness when I am put in such a situation. Contd

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I feel you. It’s not that I hate being around people (I mean I do, but that’s just because I like being by myself more), but at least in situations where I have to be a normal human being I’m incapable of doing so because I’m a fucking weirdo

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Maybe it's just a fear of being rejected? Like, you want to be the center of everyone's attention, so that any other role within a group of people looks like a failure to you?

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We should have a meetup and be awkward together

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Do you feel like you can't interact with people like how others do? Call that introversion or being a weirdo lol.

Yes yes yes! I am all of this. And I'm freaking out right now because I moved to a new city and have the hardest time making new friends on the weekends because I feel so awkward and nervous to talk to ppl.

Count me in

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