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

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

I was really shy as a kid.

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

I was quite quiet as a kid. I sat around watching people.