fear of negative appraisal

Many people lack the quality of being able to enjoy a presentation of themselves as powerless, weak, poor, distasteful, unpopular, ill, evil, foolish, or ugly ... this tends to be due to trauma associated with such frames.

So whereas a neutral person is not bothered by such presentations of self, a historically wounded person may not be able to see at all how such presentations could be neutral or positive. They are wearing lenses, they cannot remove.