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Lightning88
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No. I find that if people just stare at me, it's rude. So I try not to do it to other people. Also, if I do end up staring into blank space, one of my eyes starts going upwards (it's a lazy eye). So I try not to do that. It makes me look kind of insane... 
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Tempy
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| anbuend wrote: | Yeah. My parents always reprimanded me for "staring" -- and they didn't mean at people, generally, they just thought it made me look weird. They said my brother did it too, they called it "staring at air".
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Yeah staring at nothing my parents used to reprimand me as well, but that is when and if they where paying attention to me. |
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AToughCustomer
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| sometimes i stare into nothingness too, but people don't seem to notice/care |
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JohKnip
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| i stare alot i have gotten better about not doing it over the years but in middle school i got stabbed in the arm 3 times at once because i was staring at this guy beside me for no particular reason |
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Social_Fantom
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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I star into space a lot. When this happens, my eyes will be facing something but I won't be looking at it. I know this happens to a lot of us but I just wanted to put in my two cents.
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MrMacPhisto
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I have that problem but it is usually when I am tired or ill otherwise I don't stare at things
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Bopkasen
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Yes and No. I don't have a problem with staring but I do stare.
It know it rude to stare at girl. This is why I stare at something and not be obvious.
Autistic people that stares are like parking your car except you left the engine running and there no one in it.
We stare, because we care.  LOL! Monster Inc.
No serious... when staring at desk, you can be thinking and daydreaming but the people that look at you think you are staring.
I got laid off because of staring at photo on wall when there nothing wrong. It just a way to kill time and effort of displeasure while working on the mopping of floor. |
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sartresue
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: Staring |
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Up the down stare-case topic
There are two types of staring: intentional and zone-out. The first is fascination with an object, a part of an object or a pattern. This does not include eye contact, as most of us here do not engage in it, and feel uncomfortable with it. The second is when you find yourself staring at something and then you become lost in thought. Then you snap out of it and are aware you have been staring at something. 
I have not mentioned the one with epilepsy because that is not concious, and it is because of a medical challenge. 
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Bopkasen
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Staring |
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| sartresue wrote: | Up the down stare-case topic
There are two types of staring: intentional and zone-out. The first is fascination with an object, a part of an object or a pattern. This does not include eye contact, as most of us here do not engage in it, and feel uncomfortable with it. The second is when you find yourself staring at something and then you become lost in thought. Then you snap out of it and are aware you have been staring at something.
I have not mentioned the one with epilepsy because that is not concious, and it is because of a medical challenge. |
I agree. It is a forced stare if someone have epilepsy.
It like waiting for an engine to cool down before starting it up. They have to wait before the brain to become calibrated. |
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Deus_Imperator
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| anbuend wrote: | Yeah. My parents always reprimanded me for "staring" -- and they didn't mean at people, generally, they just thought it made me look weird. They said my brother did it too, they called it "staring at air".
I got known for staring at walls and other blank surfaces when I started changing classes in school, and dealing with it by staring at things that didn't change and losing myself in them or in the colored patterns my retinas put on them. It got to the point where in some places kids would introduce me as "This is Amanda, she stares at walls."
And of course I continued to "stare at air" a lot, which was and remains usually just what happens when I'm not paying attention to (or able to make sense of) visual input. |
This whole thing is like you quoted directly from my mind. I tend to do this a lot, and it seems to make NTs really nervous. I also tend to "stare" at someone that I'm paying attention to, and have been told off by my parents for "staring straight at them."
The whole thing about when you're meant to break eye contact is really confusing though. I've never been able to work it out. It always ends up with me blinking to much, or I end up not blinking very often.
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