Hello.

I was at another forum and they had one of those online personality quizzes. Now, I usually take those with a grain of salt, but I scored a high level of Avoident Personality Disorder. After doing some research, I find that I "fit in" with that. I'm no doctor and I'm not trying to Diagnose myself, but I followed a link here. I've read a few of the posts and quite a few people have the same issues as I do. I do have friends, but I'm not too close with any of them and don't trust most, if not all of them. I spend 90% of my time by myself and only go out so I don't feel "weird" being by myself. My family always tells me to go out and make friends and I've gotten bad reviews from employers because of my lack of social skills. I have a really hard time trusting people and making new friends. A lot of my friends come and go and I losr contact with a few of them. I do want a close relationship with someone, but trusting people and actually having a "relationship", wheather romantic or not, seems impossible. I've been like this ever since I was in Junior High. I'm now 20 and my social life hasn't changed every much. I'm sorry if I revealed too much info. But, I did read something, and I do this as well, does anyone distant themselves from "reality" and engage in a very active "fantasy life"? Just wondering...

Anyway, Hello.

Hi
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Thanks! It's nice to know I'm not the only one.