Yeah. Usually when I first meet people, I pretty much just answer questions and add, "What about you?" or not even contribute, just ask questions. I am in speech therapy and I am trying to speak more so I can practice though. One of my avoidance strategies/behaviours is avoiding eye-contact. I know that I need to stop this, and as a part of speech therapy I make it a point to maintain eye contact, even though it's always uncomfortable for me. I'm pretty receptive to speech therapy, so luckily when I'm doing this I don't stutter so much that it's a noticeable problem and I'm paying enough attention to prevent and circumvent stutters. I think I developed the behaviour of avoiding eye-contact because I don't like to see people's reactions. I don't like the face of realization going from "Oh she's so cute, shes so shy and nervous she's stuttering" to "Oh, it's an actual problem for her". I don't like seeing the annoyance. I don't like the "hurry up" gestures. I basically just glance at people for a second every once in a while during my sentences. It's also strange because I maintain perfect eye contact the entire time the other person is talking, but once I start talking I just look away. There's also times when I finish my sentence, or I glance back at the person and I see them smiling or smirking then try to hide it when I look back, like they think it's funny. It's embarrassing and discouraging.