It's been a while since I've come back to this forum.
I have AvPD. It was awful when I was first diagnosed with it. These days, I am really busy with classes (15+ hours a week) and working (30+ hours a week). It's generally a "normal life" for an introvert, when not working or studying in public, for the most part, I'll lock myself away in my room.
Honestly, though, in my experience, I haven't been able to "cure" AvPD. My social skills got better, I'm more higher functioning, but if anything, I've become so used to anxiety by now that my instability is bringing me closer and closer to Borderline Personality Disorder.
Although my coping strategies might be at fault. To cope with the abysmal self-esteem and lack of sense of self, I simply dissociated from whoever the real me is, and created [another] outer facade.
I suppose I can't say I'm "cured", though, so my post is kind of irrelevant.