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I believe that I had something like this while in High school. I was deathly afraid of being in public, including school. I would end up making myself sick just thinking about it. My Sophmore year in High school I got a job working at a camp. This was very hard for me because I had to me in contact with many people. Multiple times people would ask others if I was deaf because I would shut down and not respond to anything. This all turned around my senior year in High school when I had this teacher that for 3 months had me in tears because of things he said about me. I guess I finally realized that I needed to stick up for myself and be more vocal about things. This must have increased my self confidence a lot because ever since then I have been a social butterfly. I never saw that incident as my breaking point my parents sure did.
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