Shy

[Sunshine]

Are you shy?

[Jeffster]

Not anymore. I was very shy when I was a kid. Now I think I am still reserved, but I wouldn't call it shy, really. Or maybe it is shy.

Crap, I dunno, stop asking me hard questions.

[EffEmDoubleyou]

When you look up "shy" in the dictionary, my smilin mug is the picture

[Thursday]

No
I'm starting to think i'm an ENFJ

LOL ?

[Jeffster]

Originally Posted by AvereX

LOL ?

[Thursday]

LOL

But shy is just lack of confidence in a certain area
which excludes introvert and extrovert

[Jeffster]

I think I am very confident in some situations and not very confident in others. So, I guess you could say I'm shy in those unfamiliar situations, but I usually prefer to think of it as detached.

[Thursday]

detached as a coping mechanism for the shyness(anxiety) ?

[Jeffster]

Originally Posted by AvereX

detached as a coping mechanism for the shyness(anxiety) ?

Hmmm, maybe, but I don't really think so. For instance, if someone somehow roped me into going to some loud nightclub, not the kind of place I like, I would not be jumping on the dance floor shaking my booty but I would still be taking everything in around me, observing and perceiving the sounds, smells, looks, etc. So I would be detached, I would generally want to leave, but I wouldn't be panicking, I would just be withdrawn. Hopefully that makes some sort of sense.

[Firelie]

I used to be shy when I was little, but that was mainly because we moved every few years so I was always "the new kid". I'm not shy any longer, but people still think I am because I don't talk a lot and don't go out of my way to interact with others...