morning star wrote:hanna wrote:Wow that was condescending. Life is not an afterschool special, or Gossip Girl or Mean Girls, and most high schools really don't have that group of "cool kids" that everyone wants to be part of. I think by the time you're seventeen and you literally cannot form a real connection with another human being, you can tell that there's something really wrong with you. Hell I knew that when I was like ten, and I didn't hear of AvPD until years later.morning star wrote:You're 17, you sound just like a regular teenager who's worried about not fitting in with the "cool kids"
Nonsense. I wasn't being condescending at all. You often hear of many teenagers say or feel they are in a similar position to the OP. Believe it or not, most grow out of it in a few years. The majority don't become shy loners, shoot up a school or become a serial killer. I'm not going to label a young man at 17 with a PD and neither would any professionally trained psych, because not only could it have a negative impact on his life, studies have shown that the brain doesn't stop developing until about the age of 25. That's 8 years away, and his attitude could change dramatically in that period of time.
Saying this guy has or could have AVPD could hold him back from living and achieving a fulfilling life.
"The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to late adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in rarer instances, childhood.[1] It is therefore unlikely that a diagnosis of personality disorder will be appropriate before the age of 16 or 17 years."
And nobody said anything about shooting up the school. Most avoidants don't do that.