Hi Rob,
What are your reasons/is your interest for asking these questions?
1. Have you noticed a difference in the way others react to you?
There is a natural period of relational adjustment and scrutiny from one's relations: relations are often built on mutually agreed and repeated habits/behaviours/beliefs/disbeliefs/agreements/agreed discord/complicities/dependences/etc, and any change, including 'uncovering' (Af, annatta, [your word here]) - and the rate and depth to which that change occurs will either make the rates of change between two parties apparent or not apparent. It also depends on the sensitivity to change of the relevant parties.
In people I have known I have seen both aggressively angry reactions to the change in relativity as well as deepening of pure intention/capacity in whatever a person's practice is. People also have apparently not noticed or not said anything to convey noticing; such uncovered being is nothing special, so no reaction is also apt for some people. There is not much to react to, unless I engage with people's beliefs as expressed directly to me for my hearing/consideration.
2. Have you noticed any significant changes in your behavior in relationships or when in social situations? (for instance, a lack of or a reduction of anxiety, nervousness, or shyness?
Anxiety habits are now nearly gone - when they come up, there is a realization that a physical habit, a well-worn mental pathway is occurring. It is easy to stop, sometimes chuckle; if it occurs again, also ok. In social situations I now more likely attend to the person(s) and colourfulness of what is occurring in an exchange. My hearing is quite good, so my eyes water/tear in response to sounds occasionally or my attention wanders into the sounds (as before). The information of typical group occasions is no longer overwhelming or frustrating: not dissociating from what is happening nor caught. Engaging. Some family dynamics occurred in the past year that were quite painful/anxious to behold/unable to stop; if I run into such family today (and it may follow) there's no anxiety.
3. How has attaining AF effected your drive to achieve other things in life... relationships, professional ambitions, etc?
I wasn't ambitious before this condition of uncovered normalcy (actuality), although sometimes people said I took on ambitious projects - sometimes achieving, sometimes missing targets. In hindsight, I was cultivating an exaggerated discontent/frustration while cultivating an exaggerated sense of purpose/extra-nesses.
Realization regarding the nature of "selfhood" and physical here-ness avails anything. If I want to start a blog about celebrating healthful natural waterways and delicious fresh air, blue sky, rain, bossa guitar, I may. As a human, I exists/co-creates much of its immediate habitat. It is useful and pleasant for this particular human being to spend big parts of the day getting movement and especially in fresh air, outside, in the natural world. Sitting in a doctor's office last week under failing florescent lights in a windowless room it was apparent that such lighting was tolerated by the eyes/brain, but that a windowed room with natural light would have afforded this body conditions for a naturally relaxed state.
There's lots of research about the benefits of exercise, clean air and clean water --- then, there is human-knowing: thriving on movement, curiosity, fresh air and water, playfulness, solid sleep, snacks. I work in a nice cubicle (usefully free of ants from the natural world); when not at work, I do a lot now that cares for this human animal (fresh air, good eats, yoga, exercise, enjoyable human interactions, enjoyable animal/plant care/observation, local water quality interest). In the evenings I still read some books, a magazine article, DhO, dhamma, math, etc, or just go into sleeping. I don't know what causes laughter, but there's a bit of that, too.
Those exaggerations are not there now, yet there's more care/attention in any project/activity. This can result in slowness in work as well as alacrity.