Avoidant ?

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Are some of you, like me, quite avoidant? By that I mean there are some things you won't do because you know you're not good at them . If so I think that can camouflage your difficulties , unless someone interacts with you quite a lot .

I volunteer at an op shop and while I can work sorting and tagging clothes and bedding, I told my supervisor that I'd prefer not to have work serving customers. I've done it before years ago and I was crap at it. People coming at me... I just don't think I could face that. So far they've been nice about me not serving, I hope it stays that way.

So yeah, that's something I'm avoiding.

You're better than me . I'd struggle with the interaction part of such a job , and also the more practical elements of it .

I can be very avoidant in social situations. Or with conflict/uneasy emotions. With activities and skills I am not familiar with, I can be reluctant. I am opened to a lot of new things but I get avoidant if there is a component of being put on the spot in a social situation.

For me there's a great fear of ballsing up , and being chastised or ridiculed .

I avoided reading this thread til now as I like to avoid my avoidance lol.
Yes being ridiculed makes the thing I struggled with even harder to face again. Negative associations tend to be more memorable than positive ones. It could be said that people with disabilities face this kind of ridicule on a regular basis.
I think its the complete exposure of an aspect of being disabled being met with an ignorant response, couldnt it be the healthier choice to avoid such situations?

My “avoidance” tendencies have gotten me into trouble in the past.

In my case, I'm not sure.
Mainly depends on my current mental discipline or certain resources as how more or less avoidant I can be. Or impulsivity and apathy. Yeah, I have both the vices and virtues.

I wouldn't truly know when I'm more or less avoidant, even with varying factors of stress, certainty, mental states, emotional states, physical states, etc.
I wouldn't know if I'm fleeing at the first hint of discomfort, uncertainty, or stress -- or not having any 'warning signs' and skip the whole thing or end up completely disregarding anything which includes my current limits until it happens.

I'd prefer to be as less avoidant as I can be.

I prefer to have this sense of inner integrity and actually work around current limits, or fully capitalize my best states than waste my resources dancing around a limit that doesn't currently exists.
'Current' mainly means 'temporary' in my case.

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I avoid social things because they seem way too intimidating for me and my selective mutism kicks into gear so I can't talk anyway. I avoid going down on escalators (I can handle up all right) because I have an irrational fear of accidentally stepping between the stairs and falling all the way down once they open. In general I don't avoid other things, because I get called lazy or accused of not caring if I do. Of course, I get the same thing if I try and fail, even when I was trying my hardest, but at least then I know that I really tried.