I've never been officially dx'd with Avoidant PD, but I think I meet a lot of the criteria. To the point that I am a virtual recluse! I'm
very reluctant to venture outside of my own house, even tho we live in a pretty neighborhood and have friendly (if busy

) neighbors.
I wasn't always like this--
AT ALL. As a child I was very carefree, outgoing, and made friends easily. I loved being outdoors and around ppl. But something happened. I think one of the factors was that I was slightly overweight starting not long before puberty--not much at all, but it didn't stop the skinny kids at school from calling me every hurtful name they could think of--and what stunned me was that these were the very people who not long before had been my good friends! (I don't get over things like that easily--if at all. Esp. since none of them seem to care what it did to me.) I was also NOT athletically inclinced (at any weight!) and they bullied me for that too. And for being a good student. I finally dropped out of school at the age of 16 (to avoid the truant officer) and got my GED because I literally
could not take any more of the ostracism, name-calling, mockery--you name it!
The last straw was when the girl who had been literally my very best friend beginning in 1st grade (we were so inseparable our teachers nicknamed us "The Twins") decided when we were around 16 that
I was the reason
she was unpopular. She was perfectly willing to cut off all contact with me because the "popular" clique told her if she dumped me, they would be happy to be her friends. And she accepted. (I guess she didn't know they had previously made the same offer to me--I was furious and lost no time in turning them down!!

) That was decades ago but my former "best friend" has not spoken one word to me from that day to this.
Yes, it is entirely fair to say that I no longer trust anyone. If your very best friend, the person who was like a sister to you, can betray you like that, who
CAN you trust?!
I don't know if this is Avoidant PD or not, but I avoid as much human contact as possible. I cannot take any more rejection.