Nepal, Jan. 31 -- Sugam Thapa, second-year student at KUSOM, dreads presentations, especially if they're group presentations. She would rather present her ideas to a teacher individually, preferably somewhere quiet. This is because she feels extremely anxious speaking up in front of large crowds and can't open up easily before strangers.

Safe to say, Thapa is an introvert.

Because of how she tends to sit quietly around most people, she is often deemed anti-social and people have even gone as far as to call her "creepy".

"I feel extremely uncomfortable when I'm around new people, so much so that having to speak even a few words makes me anxious," she says. Though she's engaging and expressive around her close-knit circle, it's new place...