Quote from: bibilinda on September 20, 2010, 06:26:31 PM
Jerry Springer, haha... Didn't that show go off the air like a gazillion years ago? Sorry, just another laughing bout I'm havving just now... Not sure if it is the progesterone or just crazy ol' me...

That's why I say I get my "stink eye" from older women...  they're the ones with old-fashioned (more like dogmatic and stupid) ideas, and probably the ones who watched that show every day and took it seriously!

This is so true.  It's pretty sad that some people got their 'education' from Jerry Springer show. 

Who's Jerry Springer 

The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe you are looking or even staring at people and they think it's rude or something.  I mean, the fact that you are noticing people looking at you tells me that you aren't distracted by your own thoughts.  Your attention might be turned outwards and you might seem really tense and not relaxed, and that can attract attention and annoy people.  Others can spot it if you are glancing at them, even out of the corner of your eye, and be creeped out by it.  If that's the case, just try thinking of other stuff and get it off your mind.  You can't go around trying to observe the way people perceive you and still act natural.

I'm also of the idea that they are just jealous. You are very very pretty!

maybe u were new in the town. so they look at u.. stay positif. =)

Quote from: glendagladwitch on September 20, 2010, 09:06:07 PM
The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe you are looking or even staring at people and they think it's rude or something.  I mean, the fact that you are noticing people looking at you tells me that you aren't distracted by your own thoughts.  Your attention might be turned outwards and you might seem really tense and not relaxed, and that can attract attention and annoy people.  Others can spot it if you are glancing at them, even out of the corner of your eye, and be creeped out by it.  If that's the case, just try thinking of other stuff and get it off your mind.  You can't go around trying to observe the way people perceive you and still act natural.

I tell myself this a lot, but it's been pretty ingrained in me to watch people. I've always worried that it's made me come off as a creeper.
I can never tell what's more egocentric though; constantly wondering what the rest of the world thinks of me, or being too distracted by my own thoughts to care...

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no matter how hard I try to just divert my gaze.

It can't be so hard, you're taller than most of them At 6ft I should know

Although one must be careful when ignoring others:

Quote from: Keira on June 07, 2008, 06:14:03 PM
Not caring if other's clock you, or even accept you is
a way to distance yourself from others.

I'm not so sure its courageous, or oblivious.

I actually see this kind "I don't care what the world thinks" more
often when TS start therapy and they are often mad at the world
because of their past.

The result of this is often not to good integration with society and
failed or marginal transition. Unless people actually care if
the world accepts you, its hard to integrate this world
(that's my observation).

That doesn't mean you should put your self-worth in the hands of
those outside you. But, there should be an equilibrium
between doing your own thing and being in society.