Stares in public places.

[Tulicks]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just paranoid, but I can't help but notice all the stares I get whenever I'm in places like shopping malls, grocery stories, etc. Anyone else experience this?

Note: My mind always feels foggy whenever this happens as well. Like I feel like a bubble head, if that makes sense.

 

[Iluv]

Yes. I notice this too. I have a hard time walking with crowds of people because my mind startles itself with the idea of a mocking or judgmental stare.
I do not like the wandering eyes. I feel the pressure of the judgment.

 

[Tulicks]

Yes. I notice this too. I have a hard time walking with crowds of people because my mind startles itself with the idea of a mocking or judgmental stare.
I do not like the wandering eyes. I feel the pressure of the judgment.

So the cause of this is the fear of judging? I don't see any rational reason why I would fear being judged. Half the people who stare at me are old geezers. It's kind of creepy.

 

[Iluv]

So the cause of this is the fear of judging? I don't see any rational reason why I would fear being judged. Half the people who stare at me are old geezers. It's kind of creepy.

Oh no I didn't mean you, I meant it's the fear for myself when they stare at me.
You will only know the reason behind your fear. But it could possibly be anything.

 

[MrJones]

Stares in public toilets are worse than most others...


I will leave now the cocky joke to coyote (okay, the next one).

 

[The Lost]

I hate being stared at anywhere. I keep picturing their face and why they would stare, as if I've done something to insult them. Irrational I know, but it's a habit a can't seem to break.

 

[coyote]

i have decided that people must stare at me because i'm extremely attractive

if i were hideous, wouldn't they look away?

if i were uninteresting, wouldn't they ignore me?

 

[WeirdyMcGee]

I'm stared at everywhere and it bothers me alot more than it should, I suppose.
I wish I were invisible. I feel tiny and disgusting, being looked at.

 

[Tulicks]

i have decided that people must stare at me because i'm extremely attractive

if i were hideous, wouldn't they look away?

if i were uninteresting, wouldn't they ignore me?

That's true. I have wondered if it was because I am an attractive person. I have been told that I'm an attractive person, and that people will stare at me naturally for that reason. I'm choosing to decide that's the reason as well.

 

[Kiwong]

People look and I wonder if they have a problem with me. Makes me want to hide.

 

[Roman Legion]

I guess people stare at me because I never take off my sunglasses or headphones in public.. Only when I am at home I do not wear them.. It could be anything, but it still makes me very uncomfortable.

 

[Locke]

I can remember having this problem even in the third grade, just walking through the school yard. It's gotten better for me now. The less I judge others, the less I think they are judging me and ever since I've been practicing that, I've found a sense of relief.

 

[powerfulthoughts]

"Staring" or looking at other people is a natural aspect of life. I look at others, they look at me, it shouldn't be a big deal.

If others look at you as they naturally do to everyone, and they notice sort of an uncomfortable/unnatural reaction, perhaps this peaks their curiosity a bit more and they continue to look, i don't know.

But I wouldn't read into the fact that people look at you. People look at other people all the time; the problem I believe, is in the way you interpret these looks. Perhaps if you are so zeroed in on the reactions of other people, you will notice and interpret looks in a vastly different light than others, who just focus on their own business and don't think anything of the looks.

 

[coyote]

...It's gotten better for me now. The less I judge others, the less I think they are judging me and ever since I've been practicing that, I've found a sense of relief.

i have found the same thing to be true for me