I don't even remember when I first learned about social anxiety, as far as the actual term/condition goes. I'd always known there was something "wrong" with me socially. I was always described as shy up until about my second year of high school. Something changed and I started opening up more and I've improved greatly since then.
When I was 4 years old it was my first time going to school and I didn't want to go but had to. There were several times when I clung to my mother very hard and wouldn't let go. The teachers had to pry me away from her. That's probably my earliest memory of having SA.
I must have misread the question. I didn't realize that there was an official term for my condition, social anxiety/social phobia, until last year after jury duty. I came home very broken and emotionally fragile. I started googling for answers and this website came up. After doing further research, I found out there was a name for what I suffered from which brought me a sense of "closure." So, last year brought some epiphanies.
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