Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
And, in that respect, you're not alone. However, as I'm completely the opposite (very little fazes me socially), I've always wondered what causes such 'shyness' in someone?

Marco.
I think it's generally a heightened awareness of self; the constant fear that 'everyone's looking at me' (though they usually aren't). Often shyness coincides with adolescence, when the body is changing and there's emotional changes going on too; some people grow out of it as they become more comfortable in their skin, as it were, others don't. It may be partly a cultural/generational thing too; until relatively recently children in England were expected to be seen and not heard, especially out in public, so parents would discourage children from talking to adults, with the result that the children became tongue-tied.