[stldev]

Anyone who has had to contend with social anxiety should be insulted reading this.

Author is trying to frame social anxiety as "rational risk aversion"; it's not. Social anxiety isn't a strategy— it's your brain misfiring and treating normal social interactions as more serious threats. It's not about being liked. It's not about being disliked. At all. Reframing avoidance as "successfully avoiding dislike" just repackages the dysfunction with a motivational poster.