Hasan Minhaj Quotes

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

I am not popular socially. I am uncomfortable around people.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I didn't go out on one date in high school.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.