GLEASON'S PROFILE

"Papa don't preach,
I'm in trouble deep,
Papa don't preach,
for I picked up this devpack cheap,
and I made up my mind...I'm gonna gam mak this baby"
~Madonna

author=SnowOwl
Go take some courses or something. The problem with you not talking to people is basically a downward spiral. The less you talk to people, the worse you'll get at talking to them. Force yourself out. You're turning into a potato.

I can attest to this, having been in that spot myself. When I first started back to classes at 26, I sat in the back, didn't talk to anyone unless called on, etc. It sucked. I'm not sure what motivated me to change that, precisely, but at one point I started sitting in the middle of the class room, making a point to talk to people, etc. It made a world of difference, and hell, I even got invited to come to lunch or wings a few times.

I'm a lefty, and I am medically tongue-tied! I had to go do speech therapy in...I think third grade? Then, when I was a teenager and went to the orthodontist, he said had he seen me when I was younger he would've sent me to have the corrective surgery (which is basically snipping the extra skin under the tongue, but...)

I still have some trouble pronouncing "sh" sounds, especially after several drinks--they tend to slur into "ss" sounds. This made going to a Catholic grade school and talking about Ash Wednesday pretty interesting.

I has two dogs. Correct grammar is not required when dogs are involved.

p.s. I hate it when my sister puts the bandanna on them.

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis