Andrew99
February 9th, 2017, 07:32 PM
Hey. I'm 17 years old, and I'm a very shy person. Not just around boys but around girls especially I have no confidence. I'm not very popular and I only have 1 or 2 close friends in life. I can't bring myself to start a conversation with a girl, and if a girl starts a conversation with me I feel so awkward, nervous and I can't get my point across. This isn't in an act of rudeness, i physically feel like there's a barrier preventing me from talking to girls around my age. My friends laugh at me for this which doesn't exactly help, but when I was younger I always thought that this would just blow over with age, but I'm worried that this has gotten too far now.
As I've gotten older I've obviously became more interested in girls. I see a girl I find attractive and as much as I want to go up and start talking to a girl, I can't bring myself to do it and it leaves me feeling upset and depressed.
I try to do activities to boost my confidence. I work out pretty much every day and follow a diet to help keep me in good shape, I thought this would help boost my confidence not only with girls but in general but this didn't seem to be the case. To be honest, I don't think I am aesthetically ugly myself, but I just lack any ability to socialise with people, and instead have a few close friends.
Having got this far in life now without a girlfriend, befriended a girl or anything along those lines, I'm worried that this isn't going to stop. At the moment there's a girl in my school who liked my profile picture on Facebook, who seems really nice and she is pretty, I want to start talking to her (obviously as a friend at first) but I don't have the confidence to do this. She seems 'on my level' but I don't feel like I can approach her for obvious reasons.
So I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice, I was wondering about telling my mother about this and seeing if there's any help I can get, or do you think there's another way I can solve this? Thank you for reading
As I've gotten older I've obviously became more interested in girls. I see a girl I find attractive and as much as I want to go up and start talking to a girl, I can't bring myself to do it and it leaves me feeling upset and depressed.
I try to do activities to boost my confidence. I work out pretty much every day and follow a diet to help keep me in good shape, I thought this would help boost my confidence not only with girls but in general but this didn't seem to be the case. To be honest, I don't think I am aesthetically ugly myself, but I just lack any ability to socialise with people, and instead have a few close friends.
Having got this far in life now without a girlfriend, befriended a girl or anything along those lines, I'm worried that this isn't going to stop. At the moment there's a girl in my school who liked my profile picture on Facebook, who seems really nice and she is pretty, I want to start talking to her (obviously as a friend at first) but I don't have the confidence to do this. She seems 'on my level' but I don't feel like I can approach her for obvious reasons.
So I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice, I was wondering about telling my mother about this and seeing if there's any help I can get, or do you think there's another way I can solve this? Thank you for reading