Get out there gently. Not everyone has to be a massive extrovert, and certainly not all at once. Some of it gets easier with gentle practice for some of us...

Get out there gently. Not everyone has to be a massive extrovert, and certainly not all at once. Some of it gets easier with gentle practice for some of us... And maybe read some of those words (and videos) online by people who know they have trouble with social stuff and how they make it work at least some of the time. (I think of myself as fairly a introverted technical, but found myself putting down 'social' as one of my key skills on a grant application last week. And I may just have been out nightclubbing last night, not exactly being a wallflower, ho hum...)