Well I have a similar predicament but different outlook. I have trouble doing simple things like acquiring a waitress' attention but I do not do any activities in front of a roomful of people. Instead I become very friendly very quickly to the few people I do talk to. For example one person who I had met only two hours earlier and was just having an one on one conversation with said to me," Jaysus, for a shy type you just never shut up do ya?".