Today, I realized just how bad my problem with making eye contact is, when I caught myself looking the other way when the singer in a music video looked directly at the camera. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I realized how truly insecure I really am when the guy in the show I was watching looked straight into the camera and I immediately looked away. FML
Today, I realized just how shy and awkward I really am when I averted my eyes to avoid making eye contact with someone who turned out to be a cardboard cut-out. FML
Today, I failed an oral speech because "I didn't look up once." The problem was, every time I looked up, my teacher looked down. Every time I looked down, she looked up. FML
Today, on the bus, I caught the eye of this ugly, sweaty girl giving me a death stare through the driver's mirror. I gave her a death stare back. Only then I realized I was staring at myself. FML
Today, I was at a concert and I thought the cute drummer was winking at me, so I winked back. Then I realized he was blinking sweat out his eyes. FML
Today, as always, I have autism and it is physically painful for me to make eye contact. I read that you can solve this by looking at the person’s ears or nose. Except my mom can somehow tell when I’m doing this, and she yells and screams at me for not looking her in the eye. FML
Today, there's a guy in my class who I'm very attracted to. I'm hyperconscious of him for that, and I worry about the impression I give. By now though, there have been at least two different eye contact occasions that made it look like I was staring at him when I was NOT, and now I must look like a creepy stalker. FML
Today, at a concert, I tried to film my favorite song for Instagram. I sang along dramatically, screamed the chorus, and danced like no one was watching. When I rewatched the video later, I realized I had my phone camera flipped, recording my sweaty, overexcited face the entire time. FML
Today, I'm a shy guy normally, and when I talk to my friends I don't keep eye contact so I always look down even when I'm listening. My friend asked me why I always look at her boobs. FML
Today, I went to see one of my favorite bands. When they started playing my favorite song I whipped out my video camera and sang along. As I was reviewing the video later, I realized that I couldn't even hear the band over my horrible singing. FML
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margie2194 12
Awee it's okay. You're just a little shy, love
llamafish 25
You know, they actually can see you. Everything you do. All those whole "videos only work one way" stories were lies. Even when it's turned off.
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Comments (117)
silvercamaro 22
I do the same thing it's soo annoying /:
brown4lifejot 1
Same here but not at people in videos, only when talking with actual people. I never had this problem as a kid but it just randomly started and its with people im not attracted to aswell, its like with everyone except for really really close friends
NiveaKK 9
You certainly don't need to worry about being hypnotized by some random stranger,OP. The silver lining.
linkinpark98 24
Try to make eye contact with my picture... Betcha cant! :D
rahrah765765 11
Touché
mercedesrain 0
Hahahaha
rattusrattus 19
I freaked myself out making eye contact with my own reflection last night. I got you beat.
poopdodo1234 4
Lol I can relate, I never make eye contact to most people. It seems weird and too romantic. Lookin into someone eyes while talking brings tension to the plate for me
misterjez 15
I love tension. It's at the perfect setting if you can cut though it like a knife through warm butter.
gracehi 33
I'm no doctor, but it sounds like you might have ausbergers (sp?).
RussianFox 13
Aspergers* And how do you get that assumption just because someone has trouble making eye contact?
saidawhiting 14
38 - *Asperger's. You could have Googled that. especially since you clearly have no idea what Asperger's is. 46 - So close. Unless there's a grill cook involved I'm fairly sure that an 'aspberger' is not a thing.
KiddNYC1O 22
Ass burgers!
Zorah1337 0
Loool assburgers
gracehi 33
An aversion to eye contact IS a symptom. And if you can't make eye contact with someone who can't even see you, or, in this case, is not physically present at all, I'd say that's a pretty severe problem. And anyway, I never said OP had Aspberger's syndrome. I just said he might have it.
rahrah765765 11
No one has aspberger's! (good god my autocorrect went spastic trying to spell it how you did- how did you manage that?!)
tigrouficele2012 44
A symptom of one disorder can also be a symptom of a variety of other things. Or it could just be a personality quirk. If my head itches, sure, I could have bugs, or I could have dandruff, eczema, psoriasis, an allergic reaction to my shampoo...or it could just be randomly itchy, like everything gets sometimes.
saidawhiting 14
72- Why are you still spelling Asperger's incorrectly?
TheGITP 0
Have you got Skype?! I would just sit and stare at you xD
challan 19
I have problems making eye contact with people I find attractive that I shouldn't. Such as a co-worker or a friends boyfriend. Not that I even like them, I just think they're cute. I keep trying to force myself so I'm not obvious!
perdix 31
If it's a KISS video, you are perfectly normal -- Gene Simmons is creepy, in or out of kabuki make-up.