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Can you take acting lessons? I think confidence for performance comes from experience - from seeing firsthand that nothing bad happens when you screw up, and from proving that you can succeed. That's why public speaking courses require you to give a gazillion speeches... practice is what it's all about. And an acting course might help you learn to recognize, anticipate, and control your physical projection in more detail than anything else. I think that'd give you lots of confidence, just knowing what you naturally do and taking control of it.As for giving presentations in school... the number one most important nervousness cure, is to know your material & your 'act' - know it stone cold. Memorize every word, every inflection, every gesture by practicing. As you practice you will learn to minimize twitches and speak slowly. Then by the time you present, it just flows out of memory, you have nothing to worry about but sticking to the program... you're like a robot, giving the most perfect speech you can muster. I found it really drastically improved my terrible nervousness when I did this. And incredibly, nobody thought I sounded wooden!