Does anyone else have this issue? It started when I first began to have symptoms, at 12. I withdrew from everyone, because I thought that everyone was judging me and didn't like me. I isolated myself from even my own family because I thought that they were judging me. It took me years to get to the level of social adeptness that I have now, and I'm still far from where I was before I got sick.

I also tend to think that people are romantically interested when they are not. There is this guy who goes to my church. Every time we talk, he seems nervous but happy. He steals glances at me from across the room when we're involved in separate conversations. Today I asked someone who knows him better if he was single, and she said he was in a relationship. It is spooky to know that I had misread his behavior so grossly.

Then, I complimented him before I left church today (he had played some songs he wrote during the service). He was very short with me, like he was annoyed with me. It's as if he had somehow heard me asking whether he was single, and was disgusted by the idea that I would like him. But he couldn't have heard us talking, because he was on the other side of the room. And the person I told wasn't likely to have told him that I asked her if he was single. So I know that I imagined his coldness towards me, just as I imagined his flirtatiousness.

It just seems so real!

Ugh.