#GrowingUpShy Offers Introverts A Nice Dose Of Solidarity

Being a kid is awesome. You get excited about stuff and no one thinks you’re a maniac. People take you seriously as a lawyer (no, really, click the link) and you are an endless source of peacock-chasing hilarity. But sometimes, it’s also kind of tough, particularly if you’re a shy kid. Like a certain someone’s brother, who was so nervous to ask if he could use the bathroom during hockey practice that he chose to pee in his gigantic hockey pants instead. (Spoiler alert: It was my brother. I hope he is reading this.)

The hashtag “GrowingUpShy” is giving bashful youths around the internet (like my brother) the chance to come together and share their tales of shyness. People are covering everything from talking in class to opting to choke rather than cough one more time, and it’s wonderfully entertaining.

Here are just some hilarious examples:

 

You can disappear faster than Houdini:

https://twitter.com/TypicalGlRL/status/748881347779887104

What if you say the wrong name?

https://twitter.com/RelatableQuote/status/748755953554628608

Praying hard you don’t get called on:

https://twitter.com/flashingljghts/status/748845016894828544

School finally ends, but then you realize the torture has only just begun:

Eating the wrong meal because it’s too hard to say anything:

https://twitter.com/ecstatikaliye/status/748752875946336257

Despite looking at the menu for 15 minutes:

https://twitter.com/hugtroye/status/748905995989114880

Shy (all) kids today are just spoiled:

When shyness was actually super dangerous:

https://twitter.com/RelatableQuote/status/748858987517513729

Birthdays were and still are bittersweet:

https://twitter.com/raphablueberry/status/748871626591207424

Listen, we get it and apparently thousands of Twitter users do too. There’s nothing to be shy about. Except everyone is looking at you, and you might say the wrong thing, or read the wrong word, or choke to death. We’d like to say it gets better when you get older, but you actually just get better at disappearing, reading and chewing…hopefully. Everyone is still watching. Good luck!

(Via Mashable)