A few years ago, I was extremely easy to intimidate ~ so, I know exactly how that feels. People would scream in my face (it's beyond me why anyone thinks they have the right to treat someone else that way
), and I would basically have a panic attack. I'd start to shake, and without my even thinking about it, the tears would be rolling in minutes
, and I'd never say a word back to them. The tears were actually more of an anger response - I still react that way when I'm angry ~ in fact, I cry more often out of anger than out of sadness. Funny thing is though when you seem like you're intimidated, people try to intimidate you even more
. I'm completely different now, I don't take that kind of treatment from anyone. I'd say I'm pretty much the complete opposite of "easily" intimidated now - I won't say I don't get nervous, of course I do, but it takes a lot
. I still get the same feeling ~ I say it feels like too much air around my heart and in my stomach, while the blood rushes to my head
~ that I used to when someone gets in my face - I just use it differently now. Strangely enough, it seems as though since I've been more difficult to intimidate, people rarely try to intimidate me.
If I were to meet Eric Clapton or Tom Hanks or Linda Ronstadt or someone I might be intimidated, but probably more intimidated or fearful because I would feel shy, not anything they would do to me. 
and that and he was very ntimidating. 
When I first moved here from Canada my husband was always telling me to toughen up or I would get eaten alive. He is from NYC and the difference between us is vast in this respect.
