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The most important thing to know about me, I think, is that I struggle with fairly severe Social Anxiety Disorder. No matter how much I like and respect and take delight in you, there will be days or weeks (occasionally months) when I'm just too anxious to talk to you. (I do slightly better in person, where I can read the nuances of faces; I do best in highly structured situations like classrooms or work). Because of that, I tend to keep mostly to myself--I just don't want anybody to feel dissed when I suddenly vanish, which I will inevitably do. If I've added you to my circle, though, it's because I think you're interesting and smart and worth paying attention to; even when I'm standing quietly off to the side being a wallflower, I'm reading what you have to say with appreciation.