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Personal Narrative: Underlying Social Anxiety

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I experienced horrible social anxiety toward my freshman and sophomore year of high school that gave me many obstacles to jump over. Now, in the midst of my senior year I am doing much better I have drawn out of those experiences not to think of what could go wrong, but to stay at the moment and not stress about the problem that probably won 't ever happen.
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