Originally Posted by
Chillly Don't know what to say except that people probably aren't giving you funny looks. You are probably projecting your insecurity outward on them. People are too wrapped up in their own thoughts, lives, and problems, to care about how your face looks.
It's kinda like when you were a teen, and had a big pimple.. No one else cares about it as much as you.
Yes this is correct - a sociologist by the name of Cooley coined this phenomenon as The Looking Glass Self - The view of ourselves comes from the contemplation of personal qualities and impressions of how others perceive us.