Dear Kate:

Good understanding on your part: you are not ugly (title of your thread). You are not outgoing.

You wrote: “I think I may have social anxiety (or some form of it) which may cause me to be so timid?”

The word timid means “easily frightened”. Anxiety is ongoing fear, fear easily and frequently triggered. Being timid or shy means being fearful. The fear in the diagnosis of social anxiety is the same fear as in the diagnosis of other forms of anxiety, same as in timid and shy.

anita