“I stand by the fence and peek into the schoolyard. My heart breaks when I see Yossi standing by himself. He doesn’t know how to make friends.”
“My daughter Estie is seriously shy. I keep trying to encourage her to pick up the phone and invite friends over or at least accept the invitations she gets. But she refuses to even try. She has her one good friend and she sticks to her like glue. I’m really worried about her.”
“My husband is very good one-on-one. But he is really bad in groups of people — even at our own Shabbos table. He’ll give a short dvar Torah and then say virtually nothing for the remainder of the meal. I’m the one who has to keep the conversation going. It’s very uncomfortable.”
Socially Challenged
Some of us are socially challenged. That’s just the way it is. Socially challenged people don’t choose to be this way; it’s much more fun to be socially comfortable! They are for the most part born into this condition. Shyness awkwardness self-consciousness — they’re all manifestations of a certain type of anxiety. Socially anxious people may feel inhibited judged inadequate or uncomfortable around people they don’t know. In some cases they may even feel this way around people they’ve known for a long time.
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