To my experience, it is a fairly common expression of shyness to use trusted people's help when communicating. I actually know some people doing that - not jus

To my experience, it is a fairly common expression of shyness to use trusted people's help when communicating. I actually know some people doing that - not just for text, but also for phone calls (they hope one wouldn't notice, or so I guess). These are young and/or inexperienced people, and the helpers are usually best frieds, siblings or parents. Of course you can downturn them as having "serious problems functioning in society", but that's somewhat true for all sufficiently young people - they are still leaning, and I'm not to judge how people learn best.