Avoiding People on Walks...

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YES!! ! I used to enjoy walking around my neghboorhood but now their are too many damn ppl around and I cant just enjoy being by myself and the scenery. I would rather everyone ignored me and so now since I cant walk around my neghboorhood without being bothered i sneak into the woods where I know their is much distance usually between myself and others.

Fortunately, the one advantage to living in the NY area is that keeping your head down is a sign that you don't want to talk to anyone... When I'm walking on this path not far form my house, I just turn my ipod on full volume and walk. When I keep my head down, no one talks to me...

I live in the South. Never seen so many emotionally needy people! When I lived in the Northeast, I used to walk in this one park. Everyone there kept their head down, or stared straight ahead when passing each other. It was a relief. People just came there to walk. They didn't socialize.

Yep, that's exactly why I like exercising in the park -- people come there to WALK, not to SOCIALIZE!

Kris

me,too

If your walk occurs during daylight hours and you don't want to speak to anyone, wear sunglasses. It works--- people don't know if you're looking at them or not, and if they don't think you see them anyway they usually don't say anything.

I say hi to people on walks so that they don't think I hate them and I cross the street to avoid passing people in case they want to be alone and in case they have a phobia about saying hi. I don't care either way if someone says hi to me or not or if they pass me but I speculate that they may have issues and I want to be sensitive to them since I would be very happy alone in a box. Did anyone else think it wouldn't be so bad to be Roddy McDowell in the Twilight Zone episode where he is on Mars in a zoo in an apartment to himself with the plate glass window for Martians to gawk at him. I wouldn't feel anything at all being looked at but I do activate myself when I am being gawked at offensively because my family was maligned in the newspapers and I have no problem looking right back at people who think we are the walking wounded and would only approach a target who was at half strength. I don't think your looking at me is going to have the degree of effect that my looking at you would. I'm told I have ugly eyes and sometimes look feral. I don't know about that but I know people don't like it when I look at them intentionally. I also don't look at people too long or too hard because I think I make people uncomfortable when I look at them. I think NT people are uncomfortable being looked at. I'm not. I wonder why they are? Maybe they think we are judging them or something. Tsk, tsk.

Ah! The story of my life. I like to walk around my college campus because there are a lot of trees and I love to bird watch. This semester there's some construction going on and my normal route is now unavaible. So I'm forced to walk the same route as everyone else and I can't stand it!

If Im out walking and someone walks up behind me I stop and let them pass. If Someone is walking towards me I run and change directions to avoid them.

I go out of my way (as much as possible) to avoid people on walks. I like what Larry David, on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', calls the 'stop and chat'. Just like Larry, I hate the 'stop and chat'. I loathe feeling as if I have to make small talk w/neighbors or acquaintances in order to be polite. Why not just get by w/ a slight nod or a "hey"?