People always make the mistake of assuming that I'm shy. When people see me by myself, the advice they either give me is to 'not worry what people think about me' or to 'step out of my comfort zone.' The thing is I really don't care what people think about me at all, I don't feel shy when I talk to people, I just don't know what to say. The way I cope with this is to just try and get people to talk about themselves.

The problem I have here is that I just draw a blank when I'm talking to people. I don't want to be by myself but every time I talk to someone, it turns into me just listening to them talk, responding with 'yeah' every once in a while and a bunch of long awkward pauses. I really just don't know what to do and was also wondering if anyone has the same issue. I'm just getting tired of people assuming I'm shy or insecure. I just don't know what to say.