Walk "weird", write "weird"?

Wanted to bring this up again. I know the topic of this forum may seem a little off the charts. But anyhow, I just wanted to see if anyone ever feels anywhere from a moderately to extremely uncomfortable just walking around in public or when writing in front of other people. Do you feel your muscles almost tighten up and refuse to "follow your orders" because your anxiety may seem overwhelming? Do you find that you can walk with ease and write with ease when no one is around, no audience, but have trouble doing it even in front of people you know? I've encountered these things and would like some responses to see if I'm not the only one. if you can relate and have learned how to handle these problems, plz tell us how U did it! Thanks guys!

I get nervous walking around in public, especially when it feels as though everyone is staring at me. I deal with it by taking a deep breath and concentrating on my posture, walking straight and looking confident. If this fails I just pretend that I'm a celebrity and people are staring because I am famous

hah..yeh, especially when im walking and a group of teenagers are just sitting by...
i concentrate so much on my movements that i find it even harder to walk :? same with writing, i always get shaky when i do a signature or something

Whenever I have to go somewhere, I usually pick a time to go, when I know not that many people are going to be out. It makes it easier when school's back in for the other kids, because I don't have to tip toe around them all of the time.

In school I had trouble concentrating, it didn't matter what subject, or what we were doing. I remember for this one project we had to make something that could support an egg without breaking it. You had to bring it in, and climb up this huge ladder, and drop the egg into your project to see if it would break. I thought for sure I was going to die, right there. Lol.

Now if I'm trying to do work in front of other people, I usually keep my head down as if I don't even know they're sitting there. I don't know any methods that maybe able to help with that, but I usually TRY to ignore everybody. :\

Kalima your not alone. I still get this sometimes. I especially get shaky legs if I have to walk by the same group of people more than once. Sometimes I'll take longer, out of the way routes in these situations.
I try to keep in mind that people have their own problems to think about and also ask myself: "what do I think of people when i see them walk by?" For me i just assume they're going about their business and give it very little thought. So now I just assume that's what others think about me. It help.s

Also, ive never felt comfortable having anyone looking over my shoudler or even reading a completed piece of my writing or other work(eg Math solutions- Grrrr. lol). In my OAC(grade 13) Calculus class we used to put all the hwk problems on the board. Boy, that was hell. English essay peer editing too. I guess it because I've always been self conscious about my handwriting and think my level of expression isn't as high as it should be- the level of my peers.

My sensitivity has decrease somewhat over time as Ive come to realize to people all work at different levels. And that in the large scale of things I'm average or better.

hope this helped.

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AlwaysUnknown said:

Whenever I have to go somewhere, I usually pick a time to go, when I know not that many people are going to be out. It makes it easier when school's back in for the other kids, because I don't have to tip toe around them all of the time.

In school I had trouble concentrating, it didn't matter what subject, or what we were doing. I remember for this one project we had to make something that could support an egg without breaking it. You had to bring it in, and climb up this huge ladder, and drop the egg into your project to see if it would break. I thought for sure I was going to die, right there. Lol.

Now if I'm trying to do work in front of other people, I usually keep my head down as if I don't even know they're sitting there. I don't know any methods that maybe able to help with that, but I usually TRY to ignore everybody. :\

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Hey, I can completely relate to you. I am very much the same way now. I go to college right now and have the same difficulties.

I am several years into school now and it did not bother me initially. I used to always keep to myself and just 'zone out' and pretend like I did not see anybody around me. I would just let people come to me and speak as they noticed me.

The problem with this is people took this for cockiness because I knew a lot of people and they would often think I was ignoring them. :?

So I tried to start forcing myself to pay more attention to my environment and the people around me. All this did was make me a nervous wreck. I became overly conscious of everybody around me and this just amplified my SA.

Being either of those ways sucks, but I think I'd much rather be able to zone everybody out and just pretend like I didn't see them again. However I am finding myself having difficulty doing so because I don't want to seem like a loser at school I guess. So many people seem to know me that I don't even know apparently and I don't even know what to do.

My SA has gotten so bad to the point that I find myself shaking or really tense often now. When I am in class I have much difficulty on focusing on what the professor is speaking on. I am so nervous, especially when there are others that I know in the class that I feel I will have to speak to.

As silly as these things may sound, that's my life. I try explaining this to parents and they really don't get it at all, haha.

All we can do is fight through it I guess, as hard as it is. I wish there was a better answer than that, but at to this moment I have not found it. 8)

I hate walking with someone behind me because I become so aware of how I am walking and I start to feel like I am walking like a retard and maybe I will trip.

This is so true, i share all your experiences, I've gotten into the habit of playin with a coin or keys in my right hand when i walk in public, kinda gets me thinking that I'm in balance else the world falls over. are SAs so vulnerable? i dont get it, wish there was a super fast cure for this anxiety business.

yeah both i walk weird & my hand writing is ugly! lol

I only feel extremely uncomfortable walking around in public if I'm alone. If I'm with a family member or a friend, it actually eases me a bit. Now as for writing and such, I'm definitely the same way. Back when I took art class at my school a couple years ago, I used to get sooo behind on projects because I could not cope drawing and doing my art with other people around. I always felt like someone was looking over my shoulder, criticizing whatever I was doing at the time. Same with writing too. I'm taking a college english class this year and we have these "journals" we write in (The teacher usually picks a topic, sometimes controversial, and you just express your opinion). They are normally done in class, but I always have to take mine home because I can't stand writing with other people around.