Deacon Tagnarr

Thanks for the advice guys. Sorry if I made things sound a little melodramatic but it's the way I feel. I found out there IS a sport we both play (although she is like in a completely different, i.e. better, league than me at it from what I have heard). I guess that could be some sort of starting point, I dunno.

An interesting gift indeed. I would be careful how I used a talent like this. Maybe you can put it to constructive use: start a project, get a creative team together because if you can manipulate people who knows, you might be able to motivate them to achieve. I'd be interested to hear how you work in a group situation. Maybe you're destined to be a leader.

Alright. I know this is probably a classic situation to most of you but please, please hear me out. I'm a tall skinny weedy 17 year old and have absolutely NO experience whatsoever when talking to girls. Or people for that matter. I've been an outcast all my life. I stumble and stutter when speaking to anyone in everyday conversation, let alone girls. I feel inferior to people somehow, like they're better than me, like I'm stupid, and they know it. And it gets to a point where I just can't think of anything else worthwhile to talk about. I've never been to a party in my life, nor do I have any female friends. I'm about the No. 1 most confidence-lacking person in my school. If you did a tally of the number of words spoken by each person since they arrived at my high school, I would be at the very bottom of the list. That isn't to say, however, that I'm not interested in girls. For about the last year now I have had a huge crush on a girl in the year level below me. I just can't stop thinking about her. She has... I don't know, a sense of allure about her. But I think she's fairly shy and she always goes around with a loyal buddy so whenever I go to approach her I always end up changing my mind and running away before I get within five metres. She's probably seen me hanging around in the distance and is wondering what the heck is going on. It probably sounds really superficial but I have been really physically attracted to a few girls before and it feels different this time, like I could have found a kindred spirit. There's a whole new level to it; when I think about her the sky seems bluer, the stars seem brighter... well, you know the rest. Enough said. I have told NO-ONE about the way I feel about her. I've bared my soul a few times before in the past and been slammed into the dirt as a result. Won't be making that mistake again. I desperately want to speak to her, to get to know her, see if she could be this kindred spirit I seek. The thing is, in our school everything is very divided, each year level socializes only among each other. People between grades rarely communicate and as a result I've never even spoken to this girl, nor do I share any classes with her. I have no links to her whatsoever. I guess what I'm really trying to ask is how do you ask a girl out when you have absolutely nothing to go on, no-one to talk to and no "square one" to start at. Maybe I'm just an idiot. Maybe I'm setting myself on a one-way trip to being humiliated publicly(again). But in the meantime, a bit of help for a poor baffled loser would be much appreciated.