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** Alice is usually an outgoing person, but becomes a shy and anxious person as a stress response.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Depending on the situation ([[SplitPersonality or the personality]]), Alice can be brash and outgoing one moment and hesitant and tongue-tied the next.

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Depending on the situation ([[SplitPersonality or the personality]]), Alice can be brash and outgoing one moment and hesitant and tongue-tied the next.next.
** Alice is usually an outgoing person, but becomes a shy and anxious person as a stress response.
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** Alice's shyness is a facade: she pretends to be shy so she can fool people into thinking she's not a threat.
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** Alice is extroverted, energetic and likes talking to people and making new friends.
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** Alice simply doesn't leave home very often, so she doesn't know how to act in a social situation. Thus, she comes across as shy because she doesn't interact with people very often.

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* '''Enforced''': Alice's older sibling yells at her whenever she begins to strike up a conversation.

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* '''Enforced''': Alice's older sibling yells at her whenever she begins to strike up An executive mandate states that all YA novels must feature a conversation.protagonist whose primary flaw is being anxious around people. Anyone who doesn't fit into that mold will be disqualified.



** Alice's shyness becomes worse over time until her shyness turns into outright paranoia.

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** Alice's shyness becomes worse over time until her shyness turns into outright paranoia. This severely affects how she functions in daily life. For instance, she cannot speak to the cashier to buy a sandwich in a convenience store; she cannot speak to the waiter to order a meal in a restaurant; and she cannot reply to the interviewer to get a job that requires face-to-face social interaction (i.e., 99% of all jobs in the place Alice lives in). Contrary to popular belief, there's nothing "cute" or "endearing" about Alice's shyness when it's literally causing problems.



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** Alice is on the UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} Spectrum, making normal conversations a much more stressful ordeal than they would be for a neurotypical person. Instead of risking embarrassment, she opts to avoid people as much as possible.

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** Alice is on the UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} Spectrum, autistic, making normal most conversations a much more stressful ordeal than they would be for a neurotypical person. Instead of risking embarrassment, embarrassment and/or stress, she opts to avoid people as much as possible.
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* '''Implied''': Bob notices that whenever a crowd starts to form around him, Alice tends to disappear, only returning if Bob finds himself alone again.
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** Alice is a FragileFlower.
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** Alice and her friends approach a boy who claims he's Alice's boyfriend. Alice knows who [[BastardBoyfriend he is, but due to the traumatic things he's done to her]], [[PoorCommunicationKills she is unable to warn her friends about him out of fear]], leading to one of her friends being brutally attacked by him and [[WhatTheHellHero the other girls giving her hell for not telling them about him]].

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** Alice and her friends approach a boy who claims he's Alice's boyfriend. Alice knows who [[BastardBoyfriend [[DomesticAbuser he is, but due to the traumatic things he's done to her]], [[PoorCommunicationKills she is unable to warn her friends about him out of fear]], leading to one of her friends being brutally attacked by him and [[WhatTheHellHero the other girls giving her hell for not telling them about him]].
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** !Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore whose one fear is not being noticed.

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** !Alice Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore whose one fear is not being noticed.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore whose one fear is not being noticed.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice '''Inverted''':
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is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore whose one fear is not being noticed.noticed.
** Alice is usually an outgoing person, but becomes a shy and anxious person as a stress response.
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** Alice is a FragileFlower.
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* '''Downplayed''': [[SituationalSociability Alice is only shy when around strangers or in unfamiliar situations. When with her close friends, she's more talkative and outgoing.]]

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* '''Downplayed''': [[SituationalSociability Alice is only shy when around strangers or in unfamiliar situations. When she's with her family and/or close friends, she's more talkative and outgoing.]]
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** Alice's shyness leads her to purposefully miss her only friend Bob's birthday party. Bob interprets this as her not him anymore, so he [[SilentTreatment stops talking to her]], leaving her friendless and confused.

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** Alice's shyness leads her to purposefully miss her only friend Bob's birthday party. Bob interprets this as her not liking him anymore, so he [[SilentTreatment stops talking to her]], leaving her friendless and confused.

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** Alice has been diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder.

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** Alice has been diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder.Disorder and/or Avoidant Personality Disorder.
** Alice is on the UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} Spectrum, making normal conversations a much more stressful ordeal than they would be for a neurotypical person. Instead of risking embarrassment, she opts to avoid people as much as possible.


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** Alice's shyness leads her to purposefully miss her only friend Bob's birthday party. Bob interprets this as her not him anymore, so he [[SilentTreatment stops talking to her]], leaving her friendless and confused.


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** Alice's classmate, Carol, notices that Alice and Bob aren't talking anymore, and decides to get them to talk out their differences. Thanks to Carol's help, Alice not only gets back to being friends with Bob, but also gains a new friend in Carol, as well as an understanding of how her shyness can hurt other people, especially if she [[PoorCommunicationKills doesn't communicate her feelings clearly]].
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** FragileFlower.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore who's one fear is not being noticed.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore who's whose one fear is not being noticed.
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** Alice keeps watching to the ground, blushes when someone talks to people, stumbles over her own voice and thus avoids people as best as she can.

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** Alice keeps watching to the ground, blushes when someone talks to people, her, stumbles over her own voice and thus avoids people as best as she can.



** Alice has experienced [[DarkAndTroubledPast some traumatic event]] that caused her to get afraid of people.

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** Alice has experienced [[DarkAndTroubledPast some traumatic event]] that caused her to get be afraid of people.



** Alice has self esteem issues.

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** Alice has self esteem self-esteem issues.



* '''Inverted''': Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore, who dreads not being noticed.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a brash, flamboyant AttentionWhore, who dreads AttentionWhore who's one fear is not being noticed.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is only shy when around strangers or in unfamiliar situations. When with her close friends, she's more talkative and outgoing.

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* '''Downplayed''': [[SituationalSociability Alice is only shy when around strangers or in unfamiliar situations. When with her close friends, she's more talkative and outgoing.]]

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