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At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

— Mary Gaitskill

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was a very isolated teenager.

— Patty Duke

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

— Margaret Stohl

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

— Shawn Ashmore

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

— Om Puri

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

— Harold Pinter

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

— Lindsay Davenport

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

— S. E. Hinton

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

— Alice Englert

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

— Chris Pine

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.

— Trevor Donovan