I don't have social anxiety just general which is bad enough because I get it for no reason so I can't avoid it. I generally don't like socializing because my problem is people bore me very quickly, in minutes. After that I really don't care about them or what they have to say. Unless I'm drinking, then I become very social and afterwards usually feel stupid for some thing I did or say. What I find about so-called normal people, is they are mostly fake or shallow. They can keep talking about them most uninteresting things imaginable and get excited over nothing. That's normal I'm told. In order to fake it I have to pretend to laugh at their stupid jokes and pretend to be interested and care about their stupid stories. The only time I can do that to any degree of success is if I'm drinking. Otherwise I end up being unintentionally rude. So IMHO your not really missing out on a lot! Just a bunch of boring meaningless small talk. You would be better off just having 1 or 2 real friends and hang with them.