Is 'Shy' The Most Misused Word?

Isn't this one of the worst misuses? It's everywhere. You say the word 'shy' everywhere and you fail to notice a quite different state - a person who has no script. Don't you? There the word passes, bandied about wrongly because of your tendency to simplify rather than to complicate. 

The problem rears up because of connotations of course. 'Shy' has been flavoured over the years with a blend of inferior connotations designed to reassure you the user of the word who, wrongly, sees yourself as flourishing in all groups of people. When you say a person is 'shy' you mean they don't say a lot (neutral) and you mean they lack confidence (pejorative) they are inhibited (pejorative) self-conscious (pejorative) and nervous (pejorative). A shy person is found at the party and in the office, a shy person is found offering three balls for sixpence if you think you can hit the coconut (sorry). 'Shy' is not a neutral word is it.

Trouble is of course that the word subsumes, slanders, a noticeable group who are the taciturn girl on the date and the taciturn boy at the party, confident and comfortable with themselves but who, put simply, have no script. No small-talk actually pops into their heads like it does into yours. There can be 57 reasons for that. But - isn't the most interesting mute the one who is frankly unimpressed with your small-talk, but who sadly doesn't know how to do any better than you? They might so wish to say witty stuff but simply don't have the words. Just like you. No doubt what perplexes some of them is that you don't even seem to see a problem.

I've not seen anything written about the difference between the 'shy' and those 'without a script' - which is odd. And as its unpacking is grossly overdue, I duly take the first layer off here

And why are you wrong when you claim you flourish and claim you can never be mislabeled as 'shy' (above)? Well - The time I saw you, a boldly confident brick-layer, wither at a table of Cambridge dons certainly looked like shyness (in that you were both without anything to say and also very anxious) to the rest of us. Yet you certainly did not think of yourself as a shy person as, being an acquaintance of mine, I well knew. Wouldn't you be 'shy' in a couple of hundred other environments also? And certainly as frequently, wouldn't you the not-shy-at-all Oxford academic have (apparent) shyness thrust upon you when pushed into the brick-layers' party in the local pub? Certainly looks like shyness to me and my tribe. Can't someone always push you into an environment where (so it appears to me) by all the definitions of the term - you are shy?

And yet you are not. You are simply Without Script.