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What about people with social anxiety? Speech disabilities? People who can't physically go out to an online meet?

It's not just about acceptance, it's also about the comfort and safety of online communication.

I've had social anxiety my entire life. You need to push yourself to get past it. There is simply no other healthy way to deal with it.

There is only one way in which those of use that suffer from social anxiety may work through it. Face the fear.