I think I got laughed at today

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I was actually feeling a bit agoraphobic today, but I needed a walk to the supermarket, so I made myself go out.

In the supermarket I was just slowly walking down an aisle, minding my own business and heading out of the aisle, when I heard a man say "what are you laughing at?" to someone. I looked up to see a woman peering down the aisle either at me or something else (I was the only one down the aisle), and she was the one who the man (assumingly her husband or boyfriend) was asking what she was laughing at. I couldn't quite hear what she said after that, but my social anxiety tells me that it was me she was laughing at.

I tried blocking the self-conscious feelings out of my mind while I did the rest of my shopping, but on the way home I went through the scenario over and over in my head to see if she was actually laughing at me or just at something else. She was a grown woman, and they had 2 kids with them, so I don't see why an adult with kids would be laughing at a stranger for no real reason, especially that I wasn't feeling agitated or impatient, and was just walking along calmly doing my shopping.

This is the exact reason why I feel anxious going out alone. I'm so afraid I will get laughed at. I just can't be doing with playground behaviour from grown adults I don't even know in a supermarket.

I get laughed at all the time. Sometimes for a good reason, sometimes not.

It doesn't seem like you were laughed at in this instance.

I hope you get to have some fun with your boyfriend today.

Hi Joe90,

The woman could have been daydreaming and laughing at something she happened to randomly be thinking about. That's happened to me before, usually it doesn't come out as a full laugh but may show up as a big smile ... and then I get people who think I'm smiling at them, when I really wasn't.

There are many things (and people) the woman could have been laughing at.

And even if she was laughing at you? Well, that just makes her very rude.

So I wouldn't worry about it, personally.

I do this sometimes too. Sometimes I happen to be thinking about something funny and start smiling when another person is walking. Sometimes I get looks like maybe they think I might be laughing at them so I try not to do it too much.

I also feel like I get laughed at sometimes too though. Just a few days ago I was in a gym and a couple of guys happened to laugh around the same time I started working out. I couldn't really understand them because I was wearing ear buds and they were speaking another language.

This kind of paranoia kills my insides

It sounds easier to tell myself that it's their problem and to just shrug it off, but I just don't think that way. I am sensitive and I just cannot accept laughter from strangers, as it's a form of judgement and even bullying. It destroys my mental state, my self-image, my confidence, and morale. I'm scared that there will come a time where I might become severely agoraphobic. I don't know what happens when a person gets agoraphobic, how they accomplish things like going to work and paying bills.