Is it normal laughing teens make me paraniod?

Even if they are, screw em...
They're immature little brats half of the time that judge anything with skin.

Piss on them.

I found a really funny thing you can do in this situation.

You just stare straight at them with no expression, right into their eyes and don't stop, they stop laughing and become really awkward and uncomfortable. It more or less turns the feeling back on them.

Everyone who is an asshole in public is so because they assume their victim won't react, instead just taking the abuse. So don't take it and see how much it shocks them, it's hilarious. Bullies in public will SHIT themselves the second you engage them.

Don't worry about teenyboppers

Teens look are everyone and everything and they laugh about 90% of the time. If it moves, they're going to stare at it. Maybe they're not laughing at you, it could very possibly be your paranoia that puts laughing teens and staring teens together and makes you think they're laughing at you. It'strue that teens often ignore people older than them, they're cocky but are easily intimidated. I don't think they're laughing at you.

I felt like this a lot throughout school. I was used to being bullied and in turn that made me paranoid about any group of people near me who were not my friends. Now that I've grown older I've now blended into the adult crowd that teens seem to completely ignore. Which I am okay with.

sounds insecure to me. Why would you think they're laughing at you? Do they look at you and start laughing when you enter? Cos then that is quite understandable and I would walk up to them and ask them what's so funny. But if they are already laughing when you enter and don't even look at you then you really gotta work on your self confidence. You need thick skin in this world and you can't let little things like that get to you.

I honestly would ignore it. These strangers know nothing about you to laugh at. If they're laughing at your appearance then that's their prerogative. How you dress or look is your choice. Don't let it get to you.

Were you bullied in school? I'm just wondering because the whole teen angst thing may still be playing in your mind, and that you still see teens as those equal to you on social par, when they're not, they're younger than you and thus should not be an influence.

Fairly related, I had an inappropriate intense and sexual relationship in my early teens, it was my first exposure to sex in any form and it was pretty full on. Thanks to that intense year, I now have to deal with, probably the rest of my life, seeing 15 year old girls (not all of them because of their age, but I see sexual attraction in some of them) as potential sexual partners. What happens in your teens can impact your adulthood.

If I had to guess, (because I can experience similar feelings around children and teens) were *you* ever picked on as a teenager? I mean, most people will quickly say they were bullied at some point, but I mean- was their anyone in your life that was *constantly* judging you? Teens at school, your parents, etc?

We often stigmatize that teens are super-judgmental and just overall douche-bags that don't "get" reality yet- and I will admit, many times they are. But that's not their fault. They are in their prime; young, beautiful, and have more energy, and haven't experienced the adulthood of life yet. They judge because they are ignorant, but not by choice- but rather by situation. We all eventually get older and realize how dumb we must have sounded, or how rebellious we must have been to our parents, etc. But I understand the fear you are talking about. It can be very intimidating, especially when there is a group of teens, and only one of you. I suddenly get flashbacks of middle school, when I was harassed almost every single day to compensate for someone else's own insecurity. Or whenever my dad yells at me, even though I could totally break him in half at this point in my life, he still knows how to make me feel like I am 8 years old again.

We may get older and pretend to care less, but time doesn't erase ALL wounds. We also have to work on our self-esteem and confidence as we go through life. How to go about doing that...? That is a good question. I've certainly built a lot of self-esteem but I'm no where near "over it", and it depends on your situation. When I was picked on as a kid, it was for being gay. Now that I'm 23, and a human sexuality educator, I've learned the information that I wish I had known then. That's helped me a lot. And I also try to pass what I've learned on to teens today, so that others won't have to face the same cruelty. (And as a side note, whenever I go to classrooms and interact with the teens, I realize how they are sooo much smarter and more "aware" than ever before. And the younger generations will be even more educated and tolerant as time goes on.) But you have to find your own way to control the situations in your life that haven't healed yet. Because although we can choose to just ignore their laughing, that doesn't make our wounds go away.

1) Headphones. 2) Teens 3) When they know you are not in high school, you immediately get respect