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Like a lot of babies, when my daughter Roxie was still in her first year she had a certain reticence around strangers. At the time, we chalked it up to separation anxiety otherwise known as "please don't pass me to Granny or Grandpa or I'll scream my head off." Read More »
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I'VE GOT A LITTLE CRUSH THAT I COULDN'T KEEP A SECRET. YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND, LIGHT SKINNED AND REMINDS ME OF PEACHES, WITH PROUD HIPS AND CHEEKS LIKE THE REST OF YOUR FEATURES, BENDING CURVES THAT LEAVE MY LIPS ALL KIND OF… Read More »
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Formerly a shy person, I once believed I had less chance of becoming a chatterbox than Buffy has of eradicating all vampires off the face of the Earth. I waited and vaguely hoped that someday my "affliction" would go away. However, after 20-plus years had passed, I could no longer lie to myself. So I successfully used a tried and true strategy that has been around for over 4,000 years, with the help of Holly Hunter and the heroines of the Harry Potter series. This strategy works. No one should needlessly doom oneself to a lifetime of wallflower-ness when they can do what actors do: practice until they become the person they want to be. Read More »
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I'm quiet by nature, maybe even a little introverted, so this is definitely dipping a toe into new, icy waters for me! Not only that, i never used to one for committees, groups, and good works. All of a sudden i find myself surrounded by board meetings, voicing my opinions with…
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Christopher Lane, in his new book, "Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness" discusses how a normal human behavior became a mental illness requiring medical treatment and the process by which this happened.
In an article on the
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Growing up shy and a stutterer I was often interrupted, spoken “at” and chosen last for school teams or projects. It was a hidden blessing in some ways. Many in my high school were mighty surprised to see me become a reporter –…
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The weekend was wonderful, but I bumped up
against my absolute limit for social interaction several times, in
rooms full of extremely rowdy boys wrestling and shouting and knocking
things over, and people running and dropping things and moving things
and someone always being next to me, talking... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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