Hmmmm people don't really tell me what I am too often, apart from "quiet". Often it comes across like a complaint, and I'm sorry, but, well, this:

Quote Originally Posted by Cuchulainn View Post
I don't speak much, not through shyness or that I don't feel confident, I really do I just don't need to fill air with noise all the time
Haha XD So true.

I'm a combination. I'm shy and lack confidence in social situations, but also feel that there's too much emphasis on "silence must be filled" (which I guess doesn't help me with the first two points).

I think in part I read Hitchhikers Guide too young and understood Ford's alien view of small talk, of us all yapping away making the same observations about the weather as if stopping would cause our mouths to cease up. I always get a chuckle out of "ooh, it's getting dark so early now" or "ooh, it's still light at 7pm it's so amazing!" as the seasons cycle as if no one has experienced it before.


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Oh and sometimes I get "you're good at computers, aren't you?" (followed by a request to clean up a malware riddled Windows XP box or tell someone why their iPhone isn't Just Working)
Truthfully, I was 10 or 15 years ago, nowadays I'm just more confident with Google and with my ability to reversibly mess with settings than others, and somehow hold down a job doing that all the time.