Oh definitely. It's upsetting to me when people automatically assume since I'm quiet that it must mean I'm very shy, when the truth is I'm just quiet, period. My social anxiety was nothing before people started teasing me in school for being so quiet. I began to seriously think I was really broken for just having a quiet nature and not feeling the need to speak or make my thoughts totally known the moment they come to mind. I worried about how to change this-how to talk more, but that made it worse because I'd say something I'd feel embarrassed about later on and would ruminate on the whole ordeal.

Anyway...Not so much on a daily basis anymore, but when I am given trouble about my quietness it does not weaken me the way it used to.