Social Anxiety

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I hate when I'm in public in mixed company of my friends or family and I hear one of them say,

"Oh, she's just shy."

When I'm seemingly shocked that one of them talked to me.

I am not shy. I have social anxiety. A deer in headlights is not timid. Oh, no, no, no.

I'm afraid.

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