You know you're AvPD when...

Liked this;
"You know you're AvPD when you know there's a better life for you out there, but you can't motivate yourself to try and find it because of fear of more stress and problems relating to other people and you stay cooped up in your house instead."

You know your AVPD when; the girl has already made it clear she likes you; she's come up to you! you see her! and you run away! then you complain your not good enough for anyone!

skyflyz wrote:Anybody think they might actually go through with a meetup?

Now you've gotten me all nervous!

Marcus555 wrote:

skyflyz wrote:Anybody think they might actually go through with a meetup?

Now you've gotten me all nervous!

Sign me up for the meeting. As long as you two and some of the other people here show up too. I'd like to buy you all a round, sit back, and laugh our butts off at ourselves and "normal" people! I'd call that therapeutic

It might be difficult because we're spread out all over the globe. Where is everybody from, anyway? I'm in New York.

When you take a small step towards meeting new people because you think you have built up your self esteem a bit but then you get scared and want to undo everything you did.

I think I tried to take too big of a step, and now I am not even able to force myself to talk to my husband about it.

...you think thrice before daring to ask a HR-expert about your questions on finding a job.
Anonymously, and online.

Marcus555 wrote:It might be difficult because we're spread out all over the globe. Where is everybody from, anyway? I'm in New York.

I'm close by! Just a few thousand miles across the country. But seriously, I think some avoidants could meet, and would be OK as long as nobody asked personal questions. Not all of us hide at home right? (Or maybe I'm way off base here).

I think no way. Even best buddies would be consumed by feeling they were being judged.

avoidant-personality/topic150864-80.html

Similar thread was made about this last year, and whilst some agreed, some also disagreed and thought the idea of an Avoidant meetup was crazy, and the thread was closed.

I'm thinking it might be possible for 'pure' Avvies to attend something like this, but for people like me with mean cases of comorbid Social Phobia it's just not viable.

When you have to talk on the phone with your boyfriend's mom (bad enough), and then before getting off she says, "Love you." And you uncomfortably reply with "Good night", even though it's 3 pm.