Topic: How Do You Talk to A Shy Person
Rockmybobbysocks's photo
Thu 07/02/09 11:53 AM

I was once shy, I am now reserved... which is basically just shy until I'm in conversation. So for this, nobody really approaches me or talks to me unless I remark on something first. So lemme tell ya "hello" doesnt do much of anything. A question is the best... a question deters a person from thinking inward and helps to forget any personal thoughts, if even just for a moment. Give em something that takes long enough to listen to so there's room for noticing a smile, fashion, etc.


i'm gonna have to ask you to stop being adorable. i can't seem to stop compulsively perving you.

catseyes1's photo
Thu 07/02/09 11:54 AM
With a kind hello and how are you?

CKeef's photo
Thu 07/02/09 11:56 AM


I was once shy, I am now reserved... which is basically just shy until I'm in conversation. So for this, nobody really approaches me or talks to me unless I remark on something first. So lemme tell ya "hello" doesnt do much of anything. A question is the best... a question deters a person from thinking inward and helps to forget any personal thoughts, if even just for a moment. Give em something that takes long enough to listen to so there's room for noticing a smile, fashion, etc.


i'm gonna have to ask you to stop being adorable. i can't seem to stop compulsively perving you.


Haha no harm no foul, perv away... just stay away from my home! :angel:

Rockmybobbysocks's photo
Thu 07/02/09 12:01 PM



I was once shy, I am now reserved... which is basically just shy until I'm in conversation. So for this, nobody really approaches me or talks to me unless I remark on something first. So lemme tell ya "hello" doesnt do much of anything. A question is the best... a question deters a person from thinking inward and helps to forget any personal thoughts, if even just for a moment. Give em something that takes long enough to listen to so there's room for noticing a smile, fashion, etc.


i'm gonna have to ask you to stop being adorable. i can't seem to stop compulsively perving you.


Haha no harm no foul, perv away... just stay away from my home! :angel:


yeah like you're three thousand miles away. i'm too lazy for that kind of extended stalking. :p

EZ4Sheezy's photo
Thu 07/02/09 12:39 PM
Questions. Ask questions. Then play with comments.

tngxl65's photo
Thu 07/02/09 12:53 PM

you know.. if i don't know you're shy i can scare the hell out of you easy because i'm very outgoing. extrovert and all.

but if i have a heads up... i'll say hi. or skip hi completely and make a short quiet comment on whatever the situation may be. try to make you smile because i know you won't be barrel laughing in public.

let that pin drop. but keep the conversation rolling in spurts.

too much scares a shy person. you gotta give them breathers. :)

trust me. i know.. being all out in the open all the time has let me learn over the years how to deal with people who aren't like me. and you gotta respect the shyness.


It's the extroverts that break the ice with me. As someone said earlier, I'm not so much shy as initially reserved and can have a fun conversation with just about anyone. I'm just not likely to initiate it. My favorite people are the 'slightly nutty' ones. And they're much more inclined to be in tune with my very offbeat and irreverant sense of humor.

Dan99's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:37 PM
I usually start by holding a camcorder about 3 inches from their face and i then ask them some very personal and sexual questions.

CKeef's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:48 PM

I usually start by holding a camcorder about 3 inches from their face and i then ask them some very personal and sexual questions.


Oh me oh my, that got my belly-rolls a-rollin'

no photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:51 PM
sneak up behind them and shout BOO, that usually breaks the ice.

patsfan64's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:51 PM
I find alcohol usually does the trick and can get just about anyone to open up...

franshade's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:52 PM
laugh are they hard of hearing laugh you speak to a shy person the same way you speak to an not so shy person laugh


jaded_angel's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:53 PM

I was once shy, I am now reserved... which is basically just shy until I'm in conversation. So for this, nobody really approaches me or talks to me unless I remark on something first. So lemme tell ya "hello" doesnt do much of anything. A question is the best... a question deters a person from thinking inward and helps to forget any personal thoughts, if even just for a moment. Give em something that takes long enough to listen to so there's room for noticing a smile, fashion, etc.


I am much the same but I find that talking about something in common like the news or weather or fave band or something helps the convo roll along and then it just goes from there if you can't find stuff to talk about then perhaps it's not good chemistry or you just don't have enough in common...

PATSFAN's photo
Thu 07/02/09 01:58 PM
Grab em in the biscuits!!

Dan99's photo
Thu 07/02/09 02:20 PM


I usually start by holding a camcorder about 3 inches from their face and i then ask them some very personal and sexual questions.


Oh me oh my, that got my belly-rolls a-rollin'



My other technique is to ask them questions that require them to speak with more than a simple yes or a no, and when they begin to talk i cover my ears and go LA LA LA LA LA LA!


tngxl65's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:01 PM



I usually start by holding a camcorder about 3 inches from their face and i then ask them some very personal and sexual questions.


Oh me oh my, that got my belly-rolls a-rollin'



My other technique is to ask them questions that require them to speak with more than a simple yes or a no, and when they begin to talk i cover my ears and go LA LA LA LA LA LA!




It must work since Dan actually has a girlfriend. And a very attractive and smart one too. Not the bowser you'd expect for a man of his caliber and couthe.

Dan99's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:51 PM




I usually start by holding a camcorder about 3 inches from their face and i then ask them some very personal and sexual questions.


Oh me oh my, that got my belly-rolls a-rollin'



My other technique is to ask them questions that require them to speak with more than a simple yes or a no, and when they begin to talk i cover my ears and go LA LA LA LA LA LA!




It must work since Dan actually has a girlfriend. And a very attractive and smart one too. Not the bowser you'd expect for a man of his caliber and couthe.


Yeah i have definately ventured out of my league with her. I think its the way i talk with lots of spittle and laugh hysterically at my own jokes.

Mr_Music's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:53 PM
The first thing I do is put a shirt on.

Dan99's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:55 PM
Good idea, Keith. Your third nipple certainly wont help things along/

Mr_Music's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:57 PM
There's only one way you would know about that, Dan....

Dan99's photo
Thu 07/02/09 03:59 PM

There's only one way you would know about that, Dan....




Yeah i couldnt stop stammering until you covered it up..