Hello Phigment (clever name btw!) welcome to the forum. I'm sorry you have such a hard time being around people and doubly sorry that you spent Christmas alone and don't see the new year being any better

Maybe posting here and on the other psychcentral forums will give you a bit of people contact without the fears and drawbacks of face to face relating. I'm just assuming of course that you, like AvPD's generally, WANT people contact but find it really difficult (if we didnt' want anything to do with others, then it wouldn't be a problem would it .)

Good for you for posting anyway, glad to have you here .

Torn