On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:04:45 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_shyness
>> 
>> Maybe something like that.  Extreme fear of rejection was a bit part of
>> it.  I was always the kid the girls wanted to have as a friend so they
>> could complain about their boyfriends (or the other boys they wanted as
>> their boyfriends) to someone.
> 
> When *I* was a kid, "girls" were these mythical creatures that I'd never
> actually seen or interacted with before, but I desperately wanted to
> find one and keep her for ever and ever...

Heh, dude, you *are* a kid. ;-)  Aren't you in your late 20's?

> Of course, gradually I came to realise that girls are actually just
> normal human beings who are a bit special. Some of them are nice, some
> of them are arseholes. Oddly, attractiveness appears to be negatively
> correlated with personality... but it's only a general correlation,
> there is of course considerable variability.

Indeed there is. :-)

> Now, if I could just learn to not be terrified of all human beings,
> maybe I'd be getting somewhere! :-}

You're making progress.  :-)

Jim

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