always feel like everyone is staring at me at the grocery store

I have horrible social anxiety so I feel like people are watching me everywhere anyway!

As a confession.. I shoplift quite a bit of my more expensive food, or sub it for cheaper food in the self-checkout...

This leads me to the conclusion that: Absolutely no one is looking at you or your basket, no one is looking at what you bought, people have their own shit they're thinking about. I mean, of course I'll look at theirs and judge them for it... but then again I'm completely neurotic. Why would I care if another crazy person is basket watching me?

As for staring at food labels for hours, I do this too, I'm practically one step away from pulling out spreadsheets in the store and comparing macros... but I'm pretty sure the majority of people are just going to assume I have a food allergy or something.

/r/proED Thread