Is There a Difference Between Friends and Strangers?

I didn't know the rule book of what to say. I genuinely thought that everyone felt like this, especially when I was starting to get a little bit older and start going to university. My parents started saying, you know, it's really time for you to deal with this thing. It's going to impact your whole life for the fact that you can't do anything that involves talking to people. And my response was always, no, it's fine. It's normal. Everyone's like this," she says. "I couldn't even imagine a world where it would feel different"