sleepysparrow
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Ooooo I hide everywhere. I hid in my bedroom as a child. I hid in the library at school. I hide in my car. Hiding is fun, I don't like to be seen. I do all my grocery shopping at night.
Do you guys ever "hide"?
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Rauhn
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New member and 1st post ...
Diagnosed this past Monday ... Avoidant Personality Disorder. Wow, now a lifetime of thoughts and behaviors all fall into place. I didn't know it had a name. I just thought it was "me" and that I had a few "quirks" and who doesn't have some idiosyncrasies? This is so recent, I haven't come to terms with it yet. Difficult to accept.
I hide behind my sunglasses. It's unthinkable for me to leave my apartment without wearing sunglasses. Outdoors or indoors, it doesn't matter. Once I leave my apartment, I never take them off.
I know this is absurd but ... when I wear my sunglasses, no one can see me.
My name is Ron.
Diagnosed this past Monday ... Avoidant Personality Disorder. Wow, now a lifetime of thoughts and behaviors all fall into place. I didn't know it had a name. I just thought it was "me" and that I had a few "quirks" and who doesn't have some idiosyncrasies? This is so recent, I haven't come to terms with it yet. Difficult to accept.
I hide behind my sunglasses. It's unthinkable for me to leave my apartment without wearing sunglasses. Outdoors or indoors, it doesn't matter. Once I leave my apartment, I never take them off.
I know this is absurd but ... when I wear my sunglasses, no one can see me.
My name is Ron.
CPA23
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I can totally relate to this!!! This is so funny because I do these exact same things. For some reason, I just don't like people around when I am doing most things and that includes going to the bathroom and fixing my lunch at work. I always wait until "the coast is clear." The good news is that I am not as bad at this as I used to be. It has everything to do with being so self-conscious.
Forgetmenot_ak
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Oh yes. I'll hide in my room for hours if someone is over, and sometimes it's not merely because I'm feeling anxious but because I don't feel like I "look good" or am attractive in appearance. Sometimes it's completely irrational and the very people I'll be hiding from are the people that have seen me at my worst. I hide, still, as if they've seen me in no less a glamorous state than if I were in ballroom attire.
That's only one of my many examples...
That's only one of my many examples...
PhantomPod
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Haha, yeah, I also don't like when people are around watching me as I'm trying to do something. Even if it's something as simple as filling my water bottle. There have been a few times where people have walked in while I was filling the bottle and I have held the button too long and overflowed the bottle or I let the button go too quickly and barely even filled the bottle up. I would just want to get out of there so quickly that I'd pretend I was done. I mean, jeez, why is it so difficult for me to handle filling a water bottle!? lol.
It definitely has to do with being self-conscious. So long as I'm by myself I'm okay (yet still feel kinda anxious at the thought of someone else walking into the room I'm in), but once someone walks into the room I get super nervous and can barely function properly.
Yes! Every time my parents have friends over, which seems like all the time, I hide in my room... infact that is what I am doing right now 
I keep snacks in my room and bottles of water so I can stay in my room for the whole night without leaving it. When I was in a dorm I would hide from my roomates all the time and would only come out to use the washroom or go to classes/errands when I couldn't hear them in the main room.
I keep snacks in my room and bottles of water so I can stay in my room for the whole night without leaving it. When I was in a dorm I would hide from my roomates all the time and would only come out to use the washroom or go to classes/errands when I couldn't hear them in the main room.
recluse
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I hide so much i probably was a hermit crab in my past life
When i hear a knock on the door i sometimes escape to my bedroom because i can't handle seeing people other than my parents. I feel a prisoner in my own home because of this, and people visiting makes me feel that they violate my privacy even though it's my parents home and they have the right to have whoever they want here. What makes it worse is the fact that i am unemployed and i really can't handle the question ''So what are you doing now?''........I feel kind of ashamed saying that i am unemployed and still living with my parents::
I also hide when i am in the street and i see someone i know(usually people i don't like though)
Sometimes i let the phone ring for ages and wait for my parents to answer it even if i am sitting right next to the phone, sometimes the phone stops ringing before anyone picks it up and then my parents get mad at me for not answering it.
When i hear a knock on the door i sometimes escape to my bedroom because i can't handle seeing people other than my parents. I feel a prisoner in my own home because of this, and people visiting makes me feel that they violate my privacy even though it's my parents home and they have the right to have whoever they want here. What makes it worse is the fact that i am unemployed and i really can't handle the question ''So what are you doing now?''........I feel kind of ashamed saying that i am unemployed and still living with my parents:
:I also hide when i am in the street and i see someone i know(usually people i don't like though)
Sometimes i let the phone ring for ages and wait for my parents to answer it even if i am sitting right next to the phone, sometimes the phone stops ringing before anyone picks it up and then my parents get mad at me for not answering it.
206Raider
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yeah I do that a lot. sometimes it's stupid stuff cuz I don't want akward convo's so I hide. one time at a job I had, we all had to sit in the lunchroom and I just hid in the bathroom til lunch was over. I wait til nobody is around becuase I don't want any akward moments. sometimes at my old house I would not talk to my step-dad so I would wait til he left the room and then I would run out and grab food and run back. Damn that is pathetic
Jake123
Banned
I hide so much i probably was a hermit crab in my past life
When i hear a knock on the door i sometimes escape to my bedroom because i can't handle seeing people other than my parents. I feel a prisoner in my own home because of this, and people visiting makes me feel that they violate my privacy even though it's my parents home and they have the right to have whoever they want here. What makes it worse is the fact that i am unemployed and i really can't handle the question ''So what are you doing now?''........I feel kind of ashamed saying that i am unemployed and still living with my parents:
I also hide when i am in the street and i see someone i know(usually people i don't like though)
Sometimes i let the phone ring for ages and wait for my parents to answer it even if i am sitting right next to the phone, sometimes the phone stops ringing before anyone picks it up and then my parents get mad at me for not answering it.
I do all of this too lol, sounds pretty much exactly like me
Except I also can't stand being around family, so I try to do things when they won't be able to bother me and recently I can't even face them long enough to get a drink in the kitchen
Skald
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"Make that both of us"
SnowWolf
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Me too, even when my mother had a close friend or her sister pay a visit or something I'd be terrified and just want to hide in my room. But my mother didn't understand and just got mad at me for being rude, one of the reasons I had to leave home. Now I have other things to worry about like making sure no neighbours are around before I check the mail or whatever. Avoidance behaviour is really hard to break out of.