What is a phobia?
Phobias are persistent and intense fears of a particular:
object
person (like a doctor or clown)
situation
activity
If you have a phobia, you may experience severe anxiety and panic attacks when you’re:
exposed to the object or situation you’re fearful of
thinking about the thing you’re afraid of
anticipating an encounter with the item you’re scared of
Scopophobia (the fear of beeing watched/seen) which has basically induced agoraphobia (fear of outside).
I’m an autistic woman though, so people watching me and assuming shitty things, puts me in a very real danger as I can’t information process in real time, or efficiently talk out loud.
TIL the name for this. I don’t like being in public and the opportunity for anyone to observe me in any way. Love being outside, hate that there are other people out there.
I was wondering if I’d see another agoraphobe in here
I don’t really have anything else to add, been diagnosed for years and still workingonit