Shy people thread.

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All people are inept in some way. Many are quite good at hiding their ineptitude.

I wouldn’t go as far as denying contact with folks based on some sort of ineptitude.

I am clumsy as an ox. Big Effin deal. Others have to live with it.

I used to take this on. I had a bad inferiority complex. Still do. But not as bad as earlier in life.

I specialize in knowing things that repel or completely baffle others. I've been hacking gadgets & software for eighteen years now, it's hard to even remember where I started. Someone transcended all that plastic-y nonsense for me & so I'm a friend for life. My knowledge gaps are completely normal things.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I guess some part of me sometimes feels inferior due to this but more often, I just feel too different to make my true intentions known; everyone's bound to make their own presumptions about my strangeness. I think I'm waiting around now for those judgements to be revised.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Being direct about things always helps.

Some people like to guess. Many don’t.

I’m not always direct with things...and it gets me into trouble.

I suck at “normal” things, too.

I think it would be more interesting on my part to let my friends guess more, my life is sufficiently enigmatic & bizarre. Maybe my obscurity can do more for the imagination if I embellish it.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I can't stop thinking this is the #1 reason I'm so isolated. It's a conscious habit but I'm not in control. There's only one person I know whom I ever got over this with & she understandably needs time to process it.

_________________
"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos