Social Anxiety
As someone who really has social anxiety, this is not it. I have absolutely no issues understanding non-verbal communication. I'm simply <i>scared</i> of certain social situations, for no rational reason. There are relatively mundane group scenarios that will leave my heart pounding and my hands almost shaking, though I do my best to hide it, and over the years I have become pretty adept at just dealing with it.<p>With that said, I do not mean to diminish the difficulties the author here has experienced. I just think that anxiety is not the most descriptive label for them.