Are you finding yourself scared of people

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I've always been afraid of people. I guess you would say I am passive. I don't have that drive to dominate others. I just want people to leave me alone.

Where intuition might magically tell you that some people are harmless, in the absence of intuition you have your logic, which tells you very plainly that anyone is capable of anything at any time.

More leery then scared I think. I don't let myself get too close to others. I put up walls. In public walking around town, I'm mostly oblivious to people around me. Mostly it's just their noise that bothers me. When People are following too close behind it annoys me and makes me feel uneasy, so I have to stop until they go past me.

Yep! It aggravates me as I feel, that it is totally undignified, - but I am scared of people, some people, because of their unpredictability, - and I am still too submissive, but I am getting better, as I am beginning to accept, that my views have the same weight as those of others.

I fear the unknown, mostly males. If I am somewhere by myself where it's dark and/or lonely, I always feel very frightened when a man is coming along, because I think that he's going to murder me. I think it's because I have heard of so many murder cases of some man randomly stabbing young men or women where and when they are most vulnerable. It's sick that we should live in a world like this.

I'm more scared of people doing me psychological harm than physical harm. People mess with my head in a big way when the things they say and do are contradictory or confusing to me.
I have no trouble walking the streets at night or putting myself in potentially dangerous situations.
I'm very submissive. In the past I got bullied a lot because of this and I didn't have the verbal skills to defend myself so I tended to keep taking it until my mind snapped and I ended up self-harming, self-medicating or getting taken to the ER with obsessive suicidal ideation.
I've learned to stand up for myself a bit more in recent years but I know I still have a lot of damage to repair. The concept of self-care was foreign to me until very recently but I think I'm beginning to grasp it now.

Yes. I constantly have to fight the desire to withdraw or submit, because anyone really is capable of anything. I don't trust the ability of people to control themselves, because I so often see them fail to do so. I'm scared of most people on some level, and I think I am right to be. Like jk1, I have been treated with rudeness and hostility many times for no apparent reason. I have been let down when people failed to honor their commitments to me, and I have been rejected when I tried my best to make a connection.

It's clear to me that most NTs would rather get by on attitude and intuition than develop into consistent, mature people worthy of trust and respect. Because of how they conduct themselves, how can I not be scared of them? I feel just the same as Coupe. I'm scared of people getting to know the real me when I am so insecure about myself. I can't trust them with that knowledge, and when I have a choice I will keep my social activity to a minimum of close family members.

I thought I had depression, social anxiety, and specifically Avoidant Personality Disorder until I was diagnosed with Autism. I've always had the symptoms. I would like to have love and approval from others, but secretly I don't feel I deserve those things, nor do I understand how to get them. I stopped looking for them a long time ago. I don't believe any meaningful connection is possible for me, except in my fantasies.

Yes! Almost constantly! My therapist says that I have Agoraphobia. Which is bs because I like going out, but just don't like the people. I'm even somewhat afraid of my family and some friends. It's not that they did anything to me, but I am still just the same.

I used to be more afraid of people than I am now. At least I have learned to "bluff" my way through certain situations.

One must not become like the wildebeests in the Serengeti Plain who became estranged from the herd--they are dead meat for lions/hyenas!

I'm not advocating being a member of the herd--I'm advocating having at least some characteristics of the herd, so you don't stand out. That means now cowering if somebody curses at you. That means being able to keep a "stone face" on the subway in NYC. You might be cowering inside--but you must not let it show outside. I used to let it show outside--with predictable results (i.e., bullying, people using you like a doormat, etc). One also must be able to use humor to offset potentially dangerous situations.

Yes, I still have fear. I'm still wary--but I have to go out in the world. I have to not let my fear show.

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because I'm exactly the same way

Yes. People scare me because you never know what to expect from them. But people are also very interesting and strange. Why do people behave the way they do?

For many reasons--the vast majority of which we haven't the foggiest notion.

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