it's ONLY women that make you feel that way? I'm a 16 year old girl.. In public I don't care about guys looking or talking to me or anything, I'm calm comfortable and perfectly fine. But it's around girls my age the alarm bells start going off and the anxiety kicks in.. I was diagnosed with social anxiety but is that right if I could sit in a room full of strangers that were all guys and feel absolutely normal.. but if I had to sit in a room full of girls I'd want to die, run away, and the paranoia of being judged and talked about would make me go insane..? If your social anxiety applies only to one half of the population (or even quarter of the population as I'm okay around women in their late 20s and above as well as girls below the age of 12) then how can it be social anxiety if that means all social interaction? Or am I just getting the definition of social anxiety wrong..?