making friends...

You know, I was just reading up on that once I read your post, and I actually feel better already. Everything was a perfect discription of me!
I really want to get help for this by the time my baby comes into the world. It's not fair to him/her for me to be a bad role model when it comes to dealing with people. There is no way that I want my child to learn this behavior. I want him/her to be confident in talking to people, making friends, jobs, school, etc...all the areas that I always huddled in a corner and shook cuz I was afraid of everyone in the room.
I've got a doc's appointment coming up soon, and I'm going to start out by talking to him about this and see what he says.
Thank you so much! I'm sooooo glad that you posted that! Like I said, I feel better already that I may be able to put a name to this and treat it! THANK YOU!