By Contra Costa Times
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store.
The few times he shopped, he couldn't look at the clerk and barely managed a “thank you” when he left.
He avoided encountering others, thinking his small talk so clumsy that it would invite ridicule.
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