I hate eating with other people too! 50% due to social anxiety, and 50% due to the fact that other people eat so damn slow! I can swallow ok, but my biggest fear is I'll get it all over my fingers, leave crumbs, get it on my face, and just generally be a messy eater with people watching me. Also, I finish like way before everyone else and I'm just sat there wondering how everyone else made theirs last so long! which is wierd cuz as a kid I'd be the last one left in the dining room, slowly nibbling away. And now, if I finish, I'll have to get some more or it will be awkward to just sit there, but if I do that it looks greedy. Recently I was forced to eat with a couple of friends, so I deliberately ate slowly, timed that to perfection, finnished simultaneously with one girl, and the other decided to abandon hers, internally I breathed a huge sigh of relief and downed my coffee pretty much in one, big mistake. I had to sit there awkwardly without food or drink for 30 minutes before they decided it was cold enough to drink theirs, and only because I finally suggested walking back in the cold would cool them faster, 5 minutes later we got to where we were supposed to be and then they decided the coffee was now too cold to drink! In that instance, i think i was the normal one. On my first day of college, I went into the cafeteria to eat with some people, I was done before they'd swallowed their first mouthfuls, so after sitting there awkwardly, I realised that was the last time I was going to eat there. Now I just head off to a nearby coffee shop, and demolish my food as fast and as messily as I like, no questions asked, other than of course "the usual is it, chick?"
I can't swallow my food!
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I hate eating with other people too! 50% due to social anxiety, and 50% due to the fact that other people eat so damn slow! I can swallow ok, but my biggest fear is I'll get it all over my fingers, leave crumbs, get it on my face, and just generally be a messy eater with people watching me. Also, I finish like way before everyone else and I'm just sat there wondering how everyone else made theirs last so long! which is wierd cuz as a kid I'd be the last one left in the dining room, slowly nibbling away. And now, if I finish, I'll have to get some more or it will be awkward to just sit there, but if I do that it looks greedy. Recently I was forced to eat with a couple of friends, so I deliberately ate slowly, timed that to perfection, finnished simultaneously with one girl, and the other decided to abandon hers, internally I breathed a huge sigh of relief and downed my coffee pretty much in one, big mistake. I had to sit there awkwardly without food or drink for 30 minutes before they decided it was cold enough to drink theirs, and only because I finally suggested walking back in the cold would cool them faster, 5 minutes later we got to where we were supposed to be and then they decided the coffee was now too cold to drink! In that instance, i think i was the normal one. On my first day of college, I went into the cafeteria to eat with some people, I was done before they'd swallowed their first mouthfuls, so after sitting there awkwardly, I realised that was the last time I was going to eat there. Now I just head off to a nearby coffee shop, and demolish my food as fast and as messily as I like, no questions asked, other than of course "the usual is it, chick?"