AIW/insecure/weird/ugly or are other people weird to me?
I (18m) don't get it.. I'll mind my business and someone is staring at me. Why do you need to stare directly into my eyes? If I did it you'd probably be weirded out.
Sometimes it isn't even friendly or innocent. They'll look at me and clearly look weirded out or uncomfortable like I've done something wrong.
It's also annoying how some strangers will start shit for no reason. Something that still makes me mad is something that happened last summer. I was at this food court with my friend waiting in line and I notice this lady to the side of me who kept on looking at me. I avoided eye contact with her and I looked up once. The literal moment I look up she's yelling at me (in front of everyone) asking me what the hell my problem and why I look so angry at her. Mind you I payed her no fucking mind. It was her looking and I tried to ignore.
Of course because I'm a teenage boy everyone wanted to automatically look at me like I'm the problem. That woman looked like she was in her 50s. I'm young enough to be her son and she starts with me over nothing.. This was almost a year ago and it still gets on my nerves.
The elevator is the always awkward a lot of the time as well because we're in a small space you could be looking at your phone (or at least pretend too), but you want to stare at me instead? I remember in 11th grade this one girl in my English class would always look at me like I was a weirdo.
My own family (mainly my parents) do this as well. They almost always have the most bullshit excuses. It's always I looked some type of way or that we're just so happy to see our son (as if you aren't seeing me 7 days a week).
I'm just tired of people staring at me like I'm some weirdo. At this point I just believe I'm ugly and I probably do just look weird. I just want people to leave me alone. I'm harmless. It's not like I'm going to pull out a knife or anything. AIW?
Posted Apr 23, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC