[enkiv2]

The answer to this question depends upon what specific issues you have talking to people. If you merely have unfounded anxiety, confidence-increasing tactics like joining toastmasters will help (although that will give you experience in public speaking, which is very different from private speaking). If your fear of talking to people stems from poor social skills, I recommend reading the first half of the book Games People Play, because it explains in pretty concrete and procedural terms a model of communication that addresses some common mistakes people with poor social skills make (particularly, talking significantly more or significantly less than justified by the situation). (I don't really recommend the second half of the book, because those ideas are less useful for the purpose of keeping good relationships & have also spread much more widely.)

[stonecodegump]

I think a big part of the problem is I have aspegers and thus find human conversation exceptionally confusing - thus very poor social skills. I am however, aware that this is also very likely to just be an excuse, and I want to just push past it.

I will look up that book, thanks.