Stay with me, I want to be alone.

        Analyze me if you will, I'm a kindly-disposed, harsh-sounding, because yes that's also true. It's justI'm just not a very social person. I find it hard to make and keep friends and I will usually go out of my way to avoid contact with most people. This is why I don't make conversation unless I want to. I don't enjoy small talking. It's not because I am a nasty person, it's not because I am rude either.

        I will tell you why! It's because it makes me extremely uncomfortable to talk to certain people. I feel as if my space is being invaded every time they open their mouths in my direction. I feel like I can't converse, I have nothing to say and my brain shuts down completely as soon as you utter your first words to me. What do I say now? What if it's the wrong thing? When I find myself in this situation it makes me feel like running far away, I feel as if I need to be as far away from you as possible so that we can just stop talking and I can go back to feeling comfortable again.

        For this reason I tend to be short with people, I use one word answers, I don't elaborate and I admit I will even be snappy. All just to get you to leave me alone so that I don't feel uncomfortable. I avoid looking at people I don't feel comfortable around in the eye so that they won't talk to me. I refuse to be alone in a room with someone whom I don't want to talk to.

        Also people may think I am just rude, which is understandable, but they really dont know what is happening inside me during a conversation. So next time someone gives you a one word answer, or is short, consider maybe that they have issues that they are dealing with that may make them act that way towards you. There is always more below the surface than there seems.