Anyone else not depressed, just socially anxious?

I am a generally happy person. I enjoy life. I also have aspirations. It’s just that social anxiety is really holding me back. I read somewhere that social anxiety is at least in part caused by genetics. Not sure how true this is but my mom has social anxiety so maybe I inherited it from her. I’m not depressed at all, I’m just terrified of talking to people that I perceive to be of higher status than myself (which is basically almost everybody considering I’m ugly, scared of confrontation and not very clever)