This is a good topic. Because the way I act when I meet someone I like frustrates the hell out of me. I have no idea if it ever affects what the other person thinks about me, but I know it drives me crazy.
When I really like someone, I act completely differently to how I normally do. When I'm on a first date or something, I either talk far too much and never let them get a word in because that's what i do when i'm nervous, or I close up and don't say a thing because I'm so scared that I'll say something wrong that they will be turned off....or because I'm scared that I'll babble too much!
Then I get all insecure about my own failings, things which I'm comfortable with when I'm around my friends, but things I don't want a prospective partner to see just yet. So I start saying stupid things trying to explain my actions and justifying them so they don't think the worst of me.
Basically I lose my confidence...and when that is probably what people are attracted to in the first place it becomes a bit of an issue.
All that said, it's been so long since I've met someone I really like, since I got those butterflies before seeing them, that I don't know how I'd act now (I guess butterflies before chatting to someone online doesn't count?). I'd like to think I'd be a little more reserved and not quite so immature and girly....a little bit more aware of the way I'm acting and what I'm saying instead of babbling rubbish. I'd also like to think that I'd feel a lot more comfortable with them and therefore less inclined to try and hide parts of me I didn't like.
But that's all speculation at the moment really.
sometimes the internet really does suck
