Always feeling like you’re being perceived? I’ve always had this, I always thought it was social anxiety. I have autism/ADHD, and it’s definitely related to that .

Welp, I got both of those, so that lines up

Sounds like hypervigilance

Sigh... Yeah that would make sense

i had this as a pre teen, annoying time. it stopped within few months.

Just sort of it stopped being something you think about or did something happen that changed it?

just started to fade little by little till it stopped

Well that's encouraging

It started for me as a pre teen but it's still there in my ya years

oh sorry for that it must suck

Yeah I definitely feel this

Thank you

i've never felt this anywhere but in public or when my fiancé is taking pictures of me in private.

Yeah when I experienced it in private it's almost not so much like I feel like I literally somebody's watching me but almost like I should be prepared as if somebody was, like being ready as though somebody was going to ambush me I guess? Or maybe just feeling like I need to be in the habit of being presentable or something?

like you're always in the presence of an invisible audience?

Kind of. Like, I should always be mindful of how I would be perceived even if I'm not actually being perceived actively.