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Don't stress. Introversion is more prevalent among gifted kids, and extroverts are less likely to be shy than introverts. It's not out of bounds to talk about introversion in a discussion of social anxiety.

Your daughter sounds like an extrovert, and she doesn't sound shy; others here seem to have introverted shy kids, or to have been so themselves. Noting such things doesn't amount to a statement that no extroverts, as that term may be defined by psychologists, have social anxiety, or that all introverts have social anxiety.