Being in crowded places

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I hate being in crowded spaces. They're exhausting. I try to time outings and arrange routes to minimize the number of people I come into contact with. One of the problems is that I have trouble differentiating between different conversations, so the jumbled noises drive me nuts. Another is that I also can never seem to judge where the people around me are going to go. When I was a girl, my parents taught me to always walk to the right side of a hallway or stair. No one seems to follow that rule anymore (if they ever really did), and I'm either constantly cutting people off or being run over myself by someone else.

Patricia

Crowds aren't bad. Large numbers of people in one place behave like fluids (seriously, I've actually heard of fluid dynamics being used in crowd modeling). Individual people are very difficult to predict, but the more people you put in one place the more predictable I find they become. I actually have a lot of fun dodging in and out of large crowds when I go to the city. But that requires my superhuman ability to avoid physical contact with other people. Every time someone brushes into me it's like a car crash...

I used to bump into people a lot in crowds but I think I have gotten better in them. I now bump less now. I also tend to walk in front of people, get in their personal space, bang my shopping cart into their cart. I am unaware of all of this.

I try to avoid crowed places unless I know it something I really want to do.
I like peace and quiet. And I don't have to try to hard to block others out- tune em out with their convos. I have a hard time navigating through crowds. But everyone needs to be more in tune with their surroundings including NT's.

I thought I was the only one that worried about people reading their mind. i am perpetualy paranoid that people are tlaking about when i am in a group and i cant hear exactly what people are saying. I know its rediculous to think that people are reading my mind and i KNOW there is no way they can... but i cant help but worry.

I don't like crowded places.