Do you have any really weird avoidance behaviors?

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Oh yes I forgot that one.....I sometimes avoid people I know, if I meet them. Even people I like, if I see them coming towards me and they haven't seen me, then sometimes I get a "System Not Ready" message and I make sure they don't see me. Never hidden behind boxes though.

i just go and sit in the corner chair whenever we have meetings in our office that way i dont have to interact with others neither i move around much in the office just sit in the corner
also i avoid attending marriages and funerals there are whole lot of people gossipping there not that much in funeral but marriages i certainly avoid.
i dont call up any relatives i remember earlier when i used to call them up they would make excuses like they have kept something on the gas or they are getting a other call..........etc. Once i stopped calling them up i felt better because forcibly talking with a person whom you dont like doesnt make sense
We dont get guest at home so there is no issue of avoiding them. Even after inviting someone upteen times they dont show up
Lastly i avoid making friends in my colony so that there is no headache of wishing or greeting people everytime we see them on the road.

I do this, even with people I like too. If I see someone I know (tends to be in a supermarket or mall) and for some reason I just have a fear of speaking to them, I'll head off in another direction. I will hide behind shelves, although I think I don't look like I'm hiding. For me, I think it comes from low self esteem - why would they want their day to be interrupted by me? Yet people from my past, who I've bumped into and not managed to avoid, have always seemed genuinely pleased to see me.

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I think with me it's because I expect to make a lot of social mistakes if I don't have the time to prepare myself emotionally for an encounter. There's something about knowing it's going to happen that gets me in the right headspace.

I'm neurotypical and I must say I have purposely avoided somebody because of not really wanting to speak to them today, more if I'm in a rush or having a bad day or something like that. I had one last week, I was in the supermarket and from the corner of my eye I saw my neighbour but I didn't feel too well (had a sore throat) so I didn't really feel like speaking, so I just pretended I didn't see her by leaning over the frozen food section and making out I was busily choosing something from there then wheeled my trolley out of the aisle so it completely looked like I didn't see her.

Every once in a while I just don't want to be seen by anyone. i have absolutely no idea why it happens. If I need to leave my room and get something and one of my roomates is there, I won't leave my room. I just don't want to be around anyone. Even if they probably wouldn't say anything to me.
I don't feel that way often. It just randomly happens.

Last night, I went to my room for the night and half an hour later I realized I forgot my portable hard drive in the living room. I went out to get it and saw that my roomate was at his computer in his room, in plain view of the living room. I saw him, suddenly stopped and turned around and went back to my room.

When I was a kid, I'd randomly avoid or hide from people. I think it was because I just didn't want to interact with them or get any type of attention from them.

i moved to germany.

If Im at the store and see someone I go to school with, sometimes I will take long complicated routes to avoid them noticing me. One time there was nowhere to go so I hid in a rack of clothes in the clothes section (one of those square ones with clothes on all sides and a small open space in the center)

-if my boss comes and speaks to me I act really submissive
-I've spent the whole time in my bedroom when people came over before
-I've stayed home while my parents went out to family gatherings for the weekend
-I keep my head down when the neighbours are out
-if my mum's home and the parents come to pick up their children, I'll sometimes avoid being around the parents
-at work if I want to avoid a certain co-work or boss I'll take a different route to where I'm going

IDK if this could be classified as "weird" behavior, but I used to spend a lot of time holed up in my room, and only coming out to use the bathroom and eat.

In college, if my roommates had anyone over, I'd either stay in my room and remain as invisible as possible, or make sure to hastily slink out of the apartment and go somewhere quiet (an old bomb shelter was my preferred location).

That too. Also, they often speak about things that have somehow passed me by, e.g. someone's Dad died or someone got married, as if I know. I'm too embarrassed to tell them I didn't know, so I'm in the dark for part of the conversation.

The dreaded Family Tree Test.

It happened to me just the other day. My wife bought something from a friend of hers, which was to be delivered. I heard the doorbell ring and high-tailed it to the bathroom. I didn’t come out until I was sure she was gone. I’m starting to suspect that I might have Avoidant Personality Disorder, which I’ll be bringing up to my psychologist next week.

I used to hide in wardrobes and cupboard a lot. I also spent a lot of time under my bed, as an adult I still hide by lying on the other side of the bed from the door. I've also mastered lying flat on my bed, face down with my head between the pillows (on a double bed). If you crumple up the duvet in a certain way, the bed can appear unmade, but empty.

Jason.

When I first moved by myself, I shared kitchen and bathroom with one other guy. I knew him from elementaryschool, had him on msn, but that didn't matter when it came to my need to be alone. When I woke up in the morning I lurked around my room so that he wouldn't know I was awake, I wouldn't log on msn because he could see it.

A year later I moved to another place, where I also shared kitchen, but I had a bathroom all to myself. There I got myself a tiny refrigerator to keep in my room so I wouldn't have to walk out to the kitchen as often.

I even used to carry out trash as night to avoid bumping into people.

I used an elastic belt to keep two cooling elements near my brain when there was a heatwave one summer, so that I could keep my window shut(I was unfortunate enough to have others come knock on my window to check if I were home).

Man..how weird am I?