Posted by KarenB on June 13, 2000, at 15:02:00
In reply to Re: Avoidant personality disorder, posted by Cindy W on June 13, 2000, at 8:48:38
Hi everybody,
I was just talking about this with a friend yesterday and I asked her, where do different personality types come into all of this? I mean, not everyone is SUPPOSED to be as social as the next guy. Some are introverts and it is perfectly OK. Being "afraid" is a different matter, I am sure, but for instance, I have absolutely no use whatever for weddings, banquets (ugh!), parties and dancing (it's not a judgement - I don't think it's wrong to do or anything - I just don't GET IT!) and I have to REALLY love someone to go to their wedding. I am not especially phobic of other people, it's just too much stimuli and at the same time bores me to distraction. After a wedding (WHY do they have to last ALL DAY???) I feel as if I need to sleep for two days straight. I can't because I have children but that's what I would like to do. Is this my ADD?
So, my question is,(hard to discern, huh?)isn't it OK to not LOVE social interaction? Even to avoid it? I would think that a "disorder" would mean that you are dysfunctional because of your avoidance? But, there again, no one knows I suffer depression unless I tell them, so some unknowing may argue how dysfunctional I am as a result of depression.
Clue me in. I'm just really not aware of this disorder and so far it sounds a lot like social phobia to me.
Karen
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