Self-conscious while walking?

[thor01]

Yes I do feel this, sadly. Its as if I become too aware of how I'm walking or moving, and it feels like I'm moving in a strange way haha.

 

[chained]

yes!!!!!! (((((((((((((((((((

 

[TheStatue]

I worry mainly about whether my posture is correct. And since I am very long it feels even worse, since I know that people will notice me. Although recently a guy told me I walk strange. I don't know what he meant though, and I have actively made the choice to not think about it further.

 

[A_Void_Ant]

I hate it. At home I am perfectly natural and not thinking about my movements, but as soon as I go in public I think about them and I look very stiff. I don't swing my arms because I have to think about them. My mind turns the natural swing of the arms into some sort of precise movement that needs to be analyzed every single time. Either I can force myself to swing them and look even more like a robot or not swing them at all and look like a neanderthal. I go with not swinging because it's easier. When walking around a corner, the closer I get the more I anticipate the way I'm going to look as I turn it. I end up looking like a soldier doing a left or right face in a parade or something. Every single movement I do in public is like this. I don't know if it's one of the causes or an effect of SA, but it's definately something I have to live with and I don't like it. It's that same feeling of thinking about everything that ruins any possible social life for me.

 

[recluse]

Sometimes yeah! I start to actually think about every movement i make!

Dancing is definately out of question, i feel extremely stiff and self conscious....Looking around nervously to see who is watching. The only way i'll even think of attempting to dance is if i am blotto!

 

[Elenwen]

I always feel very self-conscious when I'm walking. If someone is coming up behind me or coming towards me, I always move to one side first and avert my eyes. I try to smile a bit or nod my head at them, but sometimes I think that just makes me look crazier, especially since I never make eye contact when I do it, haha. I always wonder whether the other person feels as awkward as I do.

 

[humansrare]

Yes! Numerous people have told me I walk funny, so that makes me even more self-conscious about it of course...apparently I'm bow legged and my right arm is paralyzed. :/

 

[Phil_i]

Yes, all the time. And I find, like most anxiety stuff, its a vicious cycle where the more you think about it, the weirder you walk and if you didn't give a **** you'd move fine like everyone else...

 

[groovy]

OMG I hate this

 

[Dave1989]

I feel extremely uncomfortable crossing the street - I think all the people in cars waiting for a green light are watching and judging me. I am afraid to see reflection of myself in shopping windows or mirrors etc, because I always see how bad I look, how horrible is my posture, how fat I am.... I would rather starve to death than eat in public. When I take a bus other public transportation, I have a very uncomfortable feeling all the time that people around are judging everything about me. I would LOVE to be invisible!!!

god this is so true, exactly the same as me.

 

[theblank]

I'm self-conscious while breathing.

 

[Falkor]

Ohhh yeah. I deal with this in every aspect, eye contact, walking, sitting, writing in public, eating.... , dancing ow yeah, holding a speech (cant even do that .. lol) , talking through the phone around people.

I get aware of every thing I do... It's like being Super-Concious of my self

 

[WriterChick3]

Yeah, I have something like that.
I get panic-attacks while going in to places and start thinking I'm walking weird or stiffly and maybe people are suspicious and they think I'm doing something bad/stupid. I also fear I look/act a certain way ... Like what if my eyes are too big and show how nurvous I am, or that I look mentally-challenged ... or if I look ugly.
I better stop now -- I am very self-concious and could go on for hours. :/

 

[Kiwong]

yes. I used to have a lot of trouble with people walking behind me. I'd start to walk funny. The reason for this was at high school children would walk behind me an tease my walk and call me names.

Over the last few years I seem to have lost this particular fear.

 

[MaliceInWickedland]

I get that all the time, especially at school. I always think people are watching me as I walk and then I get so self-conscious that I feel like I'm walking weird. That makes me walk faster and then I feel like I'm walking even weirder than before. I want to get to class as soon as possible though so I just keep on speeding, regardless of how many shoulders I bump along the way. I'm pretty much used to that by now with the overcrowded halls in my school. Simply ridiculous I must say...

 

[just wanna b normal]

ahah all the time!!!

 

[arkane]

Walking downhill and there are people ahead walking up towards me.. that's the worst, my legs stiffen up and I end up walking awkwardly.. I even get like this when there are cars driving past.. I feel like all their occupants are staring at me.

^this.
i used to get so self-conscious walking on a busy sidewalk that my legs would get all stiff and i would trip over my own toes. this happened a lot walking to school in the morning, i'd also clench my jaw and start trembling from anxiety. walking into any major facility used to make me terribly nervous.

 

[GhoulsNightOut]

I get self-conscious of anything I do, it's a nightmare!

 

[Snowdrop]

Yes yes yes, all the time. I'm so relieved that I'm not the only one. I thought I was the only one who cared so much about what I look like (not simply appearance wise) but how I'm acting whether it's how I sit, stand, walk, expression etc. I've lived for so long thinking I was the only one and I felt weird and lonely and confused.

 

[just wanna b normal]

all the time & i mean it