I'm a very shy person by nature and I do avoid eye contact more than I'd like. I have horrible...just horrible social anxiety. As a result of being Deaf it's just really horrible.
I'm 29 and I should be confidant and should appear well put together like everyone else around me but I come off as a fool because of the social anxiety or worse I appear autistic. I'm just not a very social person...I'd like to think it has everything to do with being Deaf but I've a feeling that even if I weren't Deaf I'd still be quite shy.
I literally run from some people who try to engage me in a convo...or just plain ignore them acting like I really didn't hear them...LOL-it works but I wish I weren't this way. It's stressful.
