I'm a few years older than you.
My life was utterly shit. Despite having done well at school I had to leave due to an illness, and thus my education was curtailed and I was not attending college at 18 as I had planned to.
Fortunately I did enrol in a good college a few years later and graduate with a good degree, but 18 was not a good time for me.
Also, I still suffer from Anxiety Disorder and OCD, although the latter is not as severe as it once was.
I don't really have social anxiety as such. I don't get visibly nervous in public and as long as I believe I have something to say, I don't have a problem speaking to people, including attractive women, but I still have very low self-esteem and so I don't tend to ask women out that often.
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