Passive aggressive??

I was thinking tonight about how I deal with situations/people sometimes. Although I can be quite blunt and direct at times, other times I find I'd rather confront issues by avoiding them all together. So, I looked up passive aggressiveness on Wikipedia. Although I don't think I have the personality disorder, some of the traits I definitely do display at times. But I don't feel so bad, I can think of several people I know that also fit the description!

Common signs of passive-aggressive personality disorder

There are certain behaviors that help identify passive-aggressive behavior.

• Ambiguity
• Avoiding responsibility by claiming forgetfulness
• Blaming others
• Chronic lateness and forgetfulness
• Complaining
• Does not express hostility or anger openly
• Fear of authority
• Fear of competition
• Fear of dependency
• Fear of intimacy
• Fosters chaos
• Intentional inefficiency
• Making excuses and lying
• Obstructionism
• Procrastination
• Resentment
• Resists suggestions from others
• Sarcasm
• Sullenness
  

A passive-aggressive may not have all of these behaviours, and may have other non-passive-aggressive traits.