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“Repressing my own feelings became my default mode for moving through the world. I suppose I was driven by the usual causes: fear of intimacy; an intuition that if I really let my feelings flow, I wouldn't like what bubbled up; a fear of vulnerability; and a general social ineptitude.”

Feelings Emotions Vulnerability Repression Social Awkwardness Repressed Feelings Fear Of Intimacy

Book:How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

Life Death Fear Friendship Loneliness Depression Suicide Mental Illness Suicidal Social Anxiety Social Awkwardness

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.”

Autism Aspergers Social Awkwardness Social Phobia Gpoy

Book:Rubbernecker

Source: Rubbernecker

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”

Nervous Human Relationships Self Consciousness Phobia Self Absorbed Nervousness Social Anxiety Stuttering Stutter Social Awkwardness

Book:Stamerenophobia

Source: Stamerenophobia

“My face is like some sort of bashful chameleon, flashing red at any sign of social interaction. Stupid face.”

Shy Shyness Middle Grade Social Anxiety Shy People Shy Girl Social Awkwardness

Book:Speak Your Mind

Source: Speak Your Mind

“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.”

Life Fear Friendship Loneliness Depression Mental Illness Paranoia Friendships Human Relationships Social Anxiety Social Awkwardness

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.”

Kind Social Combat Bothered Persona Awkwardness Aloof Demeanor Social Awkwardness

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.”

Knows Years Persons Social Born My Own Know How Conversation Moved Shy Awkwardness Few Friends Shy Person Copenhagen Bangalore Social Awkwardness

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.”

Wanted Creative Being Real Awkward Personal Life Creative Life Socially Awkward Social Awkwardness

Author:Alicia Witt

“Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.”

Mean Evil Social Deals Behinds Identity Peers Inability Inadequacy Awkwardness Social Awkwardness

Author:Blake Judd

“I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.”

I Can Honest Awkward Socially Awkward Social Awkwardness

Author:Norman Reedus

“I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.”

Happens Adults Nervous My Time Shy Awkward Socially Awkward Social Awkwardness

Author:Christina Ricci

“Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.”

Feels Long Two Book Ideas Ends Social Kings Degrees Ancient Pops Rings Graves Stealing Locals Finding Yourself Rude Toes Tombs Admirable Cemetery Awkwardness Robbing Honorary Social Awkwardness

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.”

Social Sin Liberty Defense Awkwardness Social Awkwardness

Author:Matt Kibbe