Most people don't have any idea about most PDs, let alone AvPD, so there is no reason to discuss it. I also suspect that this disorder is quite unusual. AvPd actually is at the end of a spectrum where shyness is at the exact opposite of the spectrum and social phobias are in the middle and AvPD is at the end. It is a severe disorder, in terms of anxiety and inability to cure, does this make sense? Anyone who has it, I do, just has to learn to find ways to adapt to the outside world.