#Growing Up Shy

[poet-by-the-lake]

As someone who grow up with no friends and now has a few…it’s kind of weird?

Like I’m genuinely surprised every time they show that they enjoy my presence and it’s not even a low self esteem thing it’s just…pleasantly surprising. Like I am capable of receiving love which is pretty neat.

I like friends, they’re cool.

#friends #frienship #growing up lonely #growing up shy #growing up autistic #growing up undiagnosed

[just-gingerkat]

You ever lonely af and find a group of people who seem perfectly friendly, talk about the stuff you're interested in, laugh at the same stuff you find funny and you really wanna try and be friends with them but you're too damn anxious so you're just like

Cause thats me

Every day 😂

#why cant i just be normal #come on me just be brave #why is socializing so scary #growing up shy #being shy is not fun

[permdaydreamer]

This is for the people who didn’t party in their teens and twenties. For the people who didn’t have that “coming of age” movie experience with shenanigans and revelations. This is for the people who mostly keep to themselves. Who maybe prefer things to be quieter and gentler. This is for the people who don’t feel like they belong in a culture that values loud parties and flashing lights. I see you. And you are valid.

#teenagers #early twenties #late twenties #growing up #childhood #nostaliga #introvert #homebody #quiet life #outcast #shy #college #university #high school #neurospicy #neurodivergent #mental health #mental illness #social anxiety #it’s okay

[ethugs]

When you too shy to tell the barber he messed up

#myactualposts #videos #worldstar night #tiktok #growing up shy

[mattmurdockismyspiritanimal]

My high school sweetheart is classic literature.

#reading #introvert #growing up shy #high school #classic literature #literature #school

[milkcioccolato]

FIRST MEETING!

The first time they actually meet, finally!

I had wanted to draw this for so long, but other things always seemed more important at that moment, so I just kept postponing it🙈

#here Obi-Wan is barely 15yo and hasn’t been with Qui-Gon for very long #that’s why he still has his padawan cut! #he’s just gonna stop bothering to cut it at some point and just let it grow out #Maul is 12yo and still very shy when meeting new people #especially cute older boys that make him all flustered! #Maul fell right away. like. immediately #obi just thought he was a very cute kid and a nice friend #until Maul grew up a bit more and went from cute to pretty to handsome #and then obi started catching feelings #star wars #milks artsies #darth maul #maul #obi wan kenobi #obi wan #obimaul #jedi obimaul au #jedi maul

[tapeworrmart]

Lmao what if I drew my OC as a postal insert. They meet in a human shield situation I think 🥰

#It's funny cuz angel originated as a gta v insert and jsut grew form there. Yet I've always been too shy to draw him w trev #But I've seen other drawing their postal self inserts and I got brave!! #Maybe one day I'll draw him w T too. But there's so much in my head #But postal insert!!! I figure dude would drag him out of a situation where he's getting shot up p bad #And then the Stockholm syndrome grows from there. And angel is his own version of fucked up so it fits #Anyway I'm sick w tonsilitus rn so sorry if this is janky I needed smth to do at 2am #fan art #art #sketch #character art #OC art #Original art #The postal dude #Postal 2 #Original character #Original character art #Tapeworrm oc

[trexpel]

So kiss me

#UGH I was listening to Kiss me by Sixpence none the richer while high #felt possessed to create this #Noelle you’re such a hopeless romantic #queen #I get it girl #I was such a hopeless romantic growing up #I’m so happy I’m in love 😭 #anyways #noelle holiday #noelle deltarune #susie deltarune #deltarune #suselle #she’s trying so hard to be smooched but Susie is so oblivious and also shy

[transmechanicus]

That prev post reminded me how much it weirds me tf out when someone only interacts with specific subsets of a minority group and learns their associated niche behavior patterns, and then tries to apply those patterns to every member of that minority that they meet afterwards only to be shocked when it doesn’t work.

#my stuff #i went to a queer group a while ago to make friends and the only two other transfems were both way more shy and feminine and reclusive than #and these two had been attending for a while so they were everybody else’s baseline for transfems #this is not the other transfems fault to be clear they’re just giving #*VIBING #and then i show up looking like i spilled out of a metal concert and slapped on the she/her sticker it got me some looks #like ohhhh you think all trans girls grow their hair out and wear pink and play 1 billion hour final fantasy i see how it is #ohhhh you have preconceived notions of what trans womanhood looks like #surprise i wear band shirts and a leather jacket 6/7 days a week i cuss and take up space and have mostly guy friends #and that doesn’t make me any less of a woman

[roglaert]

Thinking about this today

#wout van aert #mark cavendish #it's the gentleness #how shy casper is #and when he realises that wout is just a giant fluffy bear... the way he throws himself in his arms #and wout is so happy 😭😭 and he even thanks him #yep. one of my fav woutje videos ever #i love when kids get all emotional in front of people they like/admire because I get starstruck as well and I'm about to turn 26 #and i find it embarrassing at my age but maybe it's something pure when you see them #and there's something pure left in us when we feel like that after growing up in a world that is everything but pure #i'm reaching probably but yeah

[asafeplaceforus112]

She's a little wonky, but in my defense I haven't drawn in a while and I just didn't have the energy to do more than a fixed up sketch

headcannon stuff below

My personal headcannon that after octo expansion, Agent 8 gets access to a regular diet and gets all cuddly and plump! Like energy of a weight lifter kind of fit!

I also think she'd really value individuality because of her time as a solider, and have lots of piercings and change her hair and all that because of it!

She likes shopping and buying lots of outfits and stuff because she likes that its ~ her stuff~ and she doesn't have to share

She wears the golden toothpick on all her dates with Captain 3 and they share a set of earrings

She's specifically this bright with Captain 3, when alone its more like those characters that are smiling softly and tall and you have no idea whats going on in their minds vibe!

This image is before side order and I headcannon that 8 was going home from a date when they got sucked in

#splatoon 3 #splatoon 3 spoilers #splatoon 3 side order #splatoon 3 sider order spoilers #side order #side order spoilers #splatoon 2 #splatoon 2 octo expansion #octo expansion #agent 8 #agent 8 x captain 3 #agent 8 x agent 3 #agent 24 #sketch #I just really think 8 is neat #I love the idea of shy and battleworn but niave 8 #that gets to grow up #and still hella traumatised #but has that one person that they feel safe with

[suaimhneas-gairid]

my favourite part of the new käärijä song is the YEARNING LOOKS wait no it's the SENSUAL TOUCHES wait no it's the FRUITY LYRICS wait no it's-

#gay gay gay #i love how he doesn't shy away from it at all #he knows what his fans like #and he dives straight in #but actually my favourite part is how they puffed up his pant spikes #those pants will never die #käärijä #but actually it's the trashy edm breaks #but actually it's the shameless capitalising on his famous catchphrase #no actually it's really how the whole song just encompasses his attitude #he doesn't give a fuck what people think #he's here to have fun #he will never cringe #it's inspiring #i wanna be like käärijä when i grow up #but for real i didn't like the song the first time i heard it #i still don't know if i do #but i love it because it's käärijä 💚 #tags got long huh

[introspectivememories]

touch-starved bernard dowd is sooo canon to me

#hs!bear who had a reputation for sleeping around not bc he particularly enjoyed sex #but bc at least during sex sm1 would touch him #and he'd give anything to be touched like someone wanted him and not bc they were obligated to #college!bear who was initially interested in the pain cult at first but became hooked after they patched him up gently #hs!bear who would drape himself all over his friends and hope this time they wouldn't push him off #bernard dowd who goes his whole life being told by his family that he's too touchy and it makes people uncomfortable #bernard dowd at a young age creating rules for himself after being told time and time again that he makes people uncomfortable #and being unable to follow them bc he loves these people and he knows no other way to show it #bear watching his family shy away bc they don't enjoy and he knows that but why does it feel like they just don't want his touch? #bear breaking all of his rules and hating himself for it. loathing himself bc don't you see bear? you're too needy too touchy. you make #people uncomfortable. and the thing about children who grow up loathing themselves is that they rationalize any affection they recieve #someone from his family hugs him and he thinks to himself: they're only touching me bc they have to. they're uncomfortable doing this. #they're only doing this bc everyone knows how much you like hugs. look dowd you've made someone uncomfortable again. #so he categorizes every touch as Fake or Real but bc he grew up like this every touch is Fake. bc no one really wants to touch him. they're #only doing it bc they have to. bc they're obligated to. #bear who walks around feeling like a stranger in his own skin bc no one will touch him and if they do touch him he can't recognize weather #it's Real or Fake and so the cycle continues. #bernard dowd #dc