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I think you got it exactly, and if you expand "social interactions" to include text conversations like this one, a narrow idea of what is "correct" is probably why so many of us here seem to care for good grammar. Going even further, I'd say it impacts any sort of "performance" that might have social consequences of any kind. I've been a perfectionist most of my life to the point that I would avoid trying a lot of things I couldn't reasonably be sure I'd succeed at on the first try. Any failure would also shut me down pretty hard. In other words, other people's "good enough" was my "unacceptable." Only recently did I learn that's common among autists, and it's something I'm still working on.