Chopin >> I have a fair bit of social anxiety. When I am talking to almost anyone, I tend to look away. When others are talking, I can make eye contact while listening.
Same here. And some people (particularly Orientals, I find) are fine with that, and some people take great offense at it, which always takes me by surprise.

>> T is not much different. I tend to talk to my journal, my lap, T's bookcase, T's window. When she's talking in general, I can look at her. When she's saying something complementary or encouraging me, I tend to look at...yep...my journal, my lap, etc.
I talk to the floor in front of me, sometimes to the couch pillows across from me - and last week I noticed that when i talk about myself, I look at the trash can a lot. Maybe that's why many T's don't have a trash can, lol?

She keeps telling me I have a great deal of shame and she wants to "get that shame out of me and gone".
Chopin -

One of these days, T2 is going to bring up the subject of eye contact. I am not looking forward to it. What DID I do with that therapy burqa?