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Starting with puberty, teenage years are such an awkward time. OP, you are describing me when I was a teen. I had a few friends but was very self-conscious and got embarrassed, red face, easily. I never had therapy or took meds and got more confident as  I got older. Nothing wrong with your DD saying she's embarrassed to look weird, many teens feel the same way.  "Borderline social anxiety"? You're jumping to conclusion too fast. Not everyone has to be the life of the party or have 100 friends to be normal.[/quote]

OP here again… I also was very similar growing up but didn’t have the same experience as you. I was socially anxious but everyone ignored it (it was a different time back then) When I went to college (and beyond) things got really bad. Eating disorder, substance abuse, anxiety and depression all peaked in my college years culminating in my having to transfer out of my highly ranked college my third year and finish up at a small local college at home. The social anxiety didn’t end there and I would say I didn’t have the right combination of tools and medicine to deal with it till I was about 40 years old. Untreated social anxiety can manifest in so many different ways. I’m happy that you had a happy outcome, but for me having had the tools to deal with it earlier on would have definitely helped.[/quote]

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