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Well what I would tell you to try is to “mirror” the socially comfortable girls. See how the comfortable girls behave and how they interact and try to be like them almost like a copy cat.
You should know, many of the things we are afraid of is only scary because we have very powerful imaginations that blow things out of proportion. Often times we scare ourselves into thinking something bad or painful will happen in a situation and what actally happens is very rarely what we pictured in our minds. Even on the rare occasion that the scary thing we imagined does happen it is never or almost never as bad as we imagined it would be. We don’t “die” we end up being fine very shortly after it. Anxiety is built up on fantasy.
The only way to get past fears is to force yourself past them. You need to confront them and prove to yourself that you are capable of dealing with whatever you fear that you can’t.
Think about the cost of not facing your fear. You have to force yourself to be around people yo learn how to be more comfortable socially. Its something that can be learned and you are probably suffering because you may not have enough experience or because something once happened where you looked bad socially and you were embarrassed that may have driven you to avoid people.