Shy vs. Quiet

[Eedee]

I was voted Most Shy for my senior yearbook... suffice to say I rarely talked at all in school.

[PAINKILLƎR]

I didn't talk much in high school, and I still don't talk much now. Is it wrong that it bothers me so much when a strangers speak to me?

[Eedee]

I was voted Most Shy for my senior yearbook... suffice to say I rarely talked at all in school.

You were voted something? Congrats, no one knew me like that. There's only 5 people who I think actually know me for real. Only one of them is family.

I was famous for not giving a fuck about talking

[Guess_Who]

On the other hand I'm talkative. Not sure what kind of situations you are talking about, maybe when you are in a big group of people that you don't know much. I always try to interact, well is not that I try actually, are just my ways. It happens naturally. My boyfriend is quiet when he doesn't know the people. What leads some people to think wrongly he is rude.

If I'm very quiet at a party or so, most likely I'm not ok or mad.

(And yeah I got kicked a few times for talking or laughing in class)

[Alex2012]

There's this thing that kinda annoys me. Often there are people who don't feel like talking or paying attention in certain situations i.e. they don't give a fuck. Sure, the reason for that can be lack of self-confidence or whatever, but it seems that almost always the latter is assumed. Like, me personally, I'm very talkative with certain people but I don't want to talk in some other social situations, and there are some people who take me for this shy dude, and it's like they don't even consider the option of me not liking to talk with them.

But it's not a personal thing as much as it is a general observation. I've seen plenty of teachers defining the quiet students as not confident whereas I know that many of my peers have simply not been interested. I also often withhold speaking in class because I don't think it's worth my effort rather than being "afraid" to speak.

i'm exactly like that and i feel very good, quiet people are better at analyzing situations, better to hear too, we have a great creative and artistic side and people not seeing that are fucking annoying.

And talking about teachers, they don't like when students are too talkative they are never glad, they just want to put you in their perfect mold.

[Slim Fiasco]

We should make a TR convention guys. Either we'll all talk, or it'd be dead silence.

[Guess_Who]

We should make a TR convention guys. Either we'll all talk, or it'd be dead silence.

I would talk alone.

I have to say, and don't pretend to offend anyone, that people that is veeeeeeeeeeeery quiet, and doesn't talk almost at all, make me feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes. I used to go on my walk to college with a guy who hardly ever opened the mouth in all the way. He made me feel uncomfortable many times. Well after 8 or 9 month he finally started to talk more.

[Slim Fiasco]

We should make a TR convention guys. Either we'll all talk, or it'd be dead silence.

I would talk alone.

I have to say, and don't pretend to offend anyone, that people that is veeeeeeeeeeeery quiet, and doesn't talk almost at all, make me feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes. I used to go on my walk to college with a guy who hardly ever opened the mouth in all the way. He made me feel uncomfortable many times. Well after 8 or 9 month he finally started to talk more.

I actually agree with that. It's very annoying when some person is quiet with fucking everybody. In one of the groups of friends that I hang out with, there's this one guy (we're like 5 overall) who talks very rarely. And we're like his best friends so there's absolutely no reason to feel uncomfortable talking.

And the worst thing is when you ask questions and people don't ask you questions back. It really kills the conversation and there's only so much questions that you can ask. This usually happens when a girl doesn't like a guy that likes her so he's the only one trying. It used to bother me but I've learned not to care, so if you're not interested in talking I'm not spending another second on you. However, I do think it's rude to act like that, and not to be contradictory with my original point, but I was talking about situations when you don't feel like starting a conversation rather than saying "fuck off" without saying anything.

[Alex2012]

We should make a TR convention guys. Either we'll all talk, or it'd be dead silence.

I would talk alone.

I have to say, and don't pretend to offend anyone, that people that is veeeeeeeeeeeery quiet, and doesn't talk almost at all, make me feel a bit uncomfortable sometimes. I used to go on my walk to college with a guy who hardly ever opened the mouth in all the way. He made me feel uncomfortable many times. Well after 8 or 9 month he finally started to talk more.

I can be very talkative too it depends with who, and I have a friend then it's not someone i don't know, it's very hard to have a convo with him because he rarely answers when you talk with him, and being alone with him sometimes that's annoying because you don't really know if you are boring or what.

[Guess_Who]

yeah, one thing is be quiet under certain circumstances and another thing is don't have conversation.

This guy I mentioned, I always had to carry the conversation. Find the topics, find the questions, he would be answering with a short answer and don't ask me anything after. You get tired of a conversation like that after a while.

[Suzanne.s]

I'm most like everybody in this thread, even on the internet I really don't like to post much, I had a twitter account but I rarely felt like I wanna say anything or replay to anyone, I don't use any type of social media.

but I'm very comfortable on stage performances, giving lectures, and talking in front of the class, it shocks everyone who knows that I sit on the back with a book or an iPod, I get really nervous before doing it, but when I'm doing it, I'm outgoing and interactive, I really enjoy it. after it, when I sit where I do quietly, everyone gives these weird looks like they know me.