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12 Apr 2009, 1:37 pm

but in order to do so you'd have to be having genuine social skills deficits, not just fear of social situations. People with the just personality disorder may have the social skills but avoid people for fear of not living up to their own and others' expectations. They fear rejection and find it in the smallest things. I personally have symptoms of both. The ASD plays into it because I know going into a social situation that I'm likely to screw up. I've ended up doing or saying the "wrong" thing so many times and have been rejected, so I've also developed characteristics of Avoidant Personality Disorder as well. Believe me, I've met people on the spectrum who were very friendly and social, just not appropriately social most of the time. But they weren't avoidant in the slightest.

One may be diagnosed with an ASD and anything else except schizophrenia by the current diagnostic criteria.