11-11-2008, 02:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally Posted by uno
Which personality disorder forums do you frequent?
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perhaps this one
http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/...t-alone-38039/
some VERY interesting posts there... 
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I tried to eat alone at a Waffle House once. I had a book with me but this guy came and sat down wanting to talk. Of course I freaked out and have not tried it since. I wish I could eat lunch alone; I currently just drive around aimlessly for an hour. Even that is better than staying at the office where I would get no break at all.
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I did my first 'eating alone in a restaurant' experiment in 2003. It was early summer in the evening, and I went into a busy pizza place in Essex, England. I ordered a La Reine pizza. No one was looking at me. People were chatting happily about their own lives. The waitress came over, took my order and left. I continued looking around. No one looked back apart from the occasional 'drive by eye contact' which I didn't allow myself to read anything into. Nothing happened. No one threw forks at me with a napkin scrawled with the words "GET OUT LONER FREAK" threaded between the prongs. The waitress brought dessert. Then the bill.
My predictions that people would look at me and talk quietly about me, laugh at me, that the waitress would say "why are you alone" and that I would spill my food everywhere all proved unfounded. I paid and then left, feeling as though I had just conquered the world.
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