Avoiding relatives

[WeirdyMcGee]

Doesn't matter if a crowd is filled with strangers or relatives or even people I've known for years and years and get along with--- a crowd is a crowd and it terrifies me.

I've been to so many funerals in the last year but my family seems to just have an infinite number of people in it... so somehow, each time there's always someone who needs to be re-introduced to me because the last time they saw me, I was in my mom's belly.
That bothers me, too...
and then- of course- they have to ask how I'm doing! 'are you going to school? do you have a boyfriend?'
No and no. I am agoraphobic and I left my house specifically to bury my grandpa. Now leave me alone, please. -___- I'm busy crying over a corpse.

 

[JonnyD]

i've been successfully avoiding my relatives for years... and not just because of SA or AVPD but because the sad truth is that i don't really like them...

well aside from the 2 or 3 that are nice, the rest is just terrible, most of them are either stuck up, troublemakers or just plain idiots and i'm pretty sure grandfather has some sort of deal with the devil or even the devil hates him so much that he doesnt want him...

 

[Ladystardust]

I do not see much of my family we are not very close but when i have to go and see them i feel very anxious. I thinking living alone does not help as i have become even less social.

 

[TaylorSwift'sHubby]

Yea, definitely when it comes to my aunt's side of the family. But they often do n say things that make it worse, so that's why... I still love 'em though

 

[Sea Bass]

Yep. My SA gets kinda bad when I'm around extended family members.

 

[BlueDays]

Yes, I used lose sleep before an extended family get together (which happened often:.
Luckily we moved far away from our extended family when I was a teenager.

 

[philhalo66]

yes, but i come from a very judgmental family so that makes it 10 times worse.

 

[Shant]

My family as a whole. I just hate being around them more than with anyone else. Anxiety's taken for granted.

Ironically, I hate being with my father more than being with my mother but I hate being with my mother's side of the family more than my father's side of the family.

 

[Marund]

yess!! this is me all the way in fact im more afraid of my extended family than strangers.

i hate xmas