>Shyness, timidity, and withdrawal from relationships associated with the willing renunciation of autonomous strivings to avoid the friction and conflict associated with closeness and commitment.
>A fear of criticism, humiliation, and rejection.
>Feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
>Anxiety in new social situations.
>Hypervigilance and self-consciousness.
>Social awkwardness due to an off-putting fearful tense demeanor that, in turn, elicits ridicule and derision from others, which confirm self-doubts, leading to further awkwardness, causing others to pull back because they see avoidants not as “fearful of rejection by me,” but as “being rejecting of me.”
>A fear of criticism, humiliation, and rejection.
>Feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
>Anxiety in new social situations.
>Hypervigilance and self-consciousness.
>Social awkwardness due to an off-putting fearful tense demeanor that, in turn, elicits ridicule and derision from others, which confirm self-doubts, leading to further awkwardness, causing others to pull back because they see avoidants not as “fearful of rejection by me,” but as “being rejecting of me.”
