Do you get second-hand cringe watching solo travelers?
In many ways i admire them, but there's so many situations that make me cringe as a solo traveler...
Like at the end of this video when he simply goes playing soccer with teens, i'd be too affraid to look like a groomer or something.
How to overcome the cringe-ness of solo traveling?
The only time I've felt second-hand cringe is when I saw a guy sitting alone at a 4-seat table in a packed michelin star restaurant. But after a few minutes that passed and I realized that there's nothing wrong with that either and I wish I had the balls to do that when I travel alone
>a guy sitting alone at a 4-seat table in a packed michelin star restaurant. But after a few minutes that passed and I realized that there's nothing wrong with that
But it IS kind of wrong tho.
It's not normal behavior (only probably 1% of customers in a michelin restaurant are alone).
not normal =/= "wrong"
>It's not normal behavior
So what? Millions of people travel alone for business at any given moment and not all of them want to lock themselves up in their hotel rooms and order room service, but go out and do stuff. If that means going to a bar alone or going to fine dining alone, then that is fine. I'm using business travel as an example because nobody frowns upon that, but when you see a guy sitting alone at a restaurant you have literally no way of knowing if he's traveling for business or pleasure, so why judge him?
>travel alone for business
People judge because you're seen as a threat if they don't understand what you're doing, it's a reality, i'd rather not deny it but try to find cope mechanisms.
For example, i do try to pass as a businessman or a local when i travel alone sometimes (only works in big cities). Businessman is good example of what is deemed normal for most people. Or photographer in a museum or park.
>People judge because you're seen as a threat
Take your meds. Protip: no one gives a frick about you or notices you. If they do, 2 seconds later they think about something else.
Go out in the real world as a solo traveler and you'll get comments sometimes, that's a fact.
And i meant "threat" on a subconscient level, not like you'll kill them. You're a stranger sharing a public space with them, their subconscient have to figure out what you are. It happens in all species, cats, birds....
I notice and am noticed by virtually everyone on the street in developing countries. Situational awareness is a routine in most places, though outside the Philippines, it is very rare to exchange words with people I pass by. Only in American cities is it considered normal to completely ignore everyone in public and even block out all sounds with noise-cancelling headphones.
Your behavior has to be awfully predatory and suspicious for Third Worlders to see you as a threat. It's always the other way around; the white foreigner sees the local man as a threat.
I used to have the desire, but lacked the confidence. Now I have the confidence, but lack the desire.
>please don't see my as a threat please think i'm a good boy
>not wanting to be a threat everywhere you go
kek what a b***h you are. you'd probably get killed and forgotten in some dumpster in colombia after getting drugged and fricked over by a tinder b***h.
You are a big moron.... go outside and spend some time feeling the air on your skin, the heat of the sun, don't forget your meds either and most importantly remember to breath
you forgot touching grass, homosexual.
It is normal.
>he simply goes playing soccer with teens
This is also normal.
Please stop being such stereotypical seppos.
>seppos
What?
Pretty certain it's aussie slang for americans
I get second hand cringe reading your posts, OP
I'll probably do this next month if I can arrange my affairs
its OK
NPC post
>I wish I had the balls to do that
What kind of loser are you?
like 99% of people would never dare do that because of how cringeworthy it is, lmao. are 99% of people losers?
Imagine being a beta boy and caring what ANYONE else thinks about you. I honestly never cared, and i can't believe that this board is full of cucks. Just man up and do what you want. People will forget about you before you even get off their sight. Even famous people. Is there a single person now that remembers about biden pedo, wiener and crack pictures? No. Neither will you in a day.
Adjusting one's behavior out of respect for other people's perceptions and reactions is basic human decency, and is very important to being a good guest overseas. Being an butthole and showing utter disregard for others doesn't make you an alpha, it only makes you an butthole. Probably a manlet as well, because it's always manlets who have to be assertive and bullying to feel good about themselves, and who have an obsessive fear of being a "beta". Aggressive manlets never get the respect they crave, so they become very frustrated as well.
You are talking about behaviour and you are right in this regard. Notice I was talking about CARING what others think - you should always be confident in what you do, and I'm not advocating for being an butthole. The whole topic came out from being alone in a restaurant, and it's a basic citizen's right to go alone anywhere public. Everyone should respect countries customs and local etiquiette but adjusting your whole day to society expectations will make your life miserable and NPClike. There are places that going alone is very weird like swinger clubs but restaurant is definitely not that place.
DING DING DING you fricking slowpoke dork morons
>Adjusting one's behavior out of respect for other people's perceptions and reactions is basic human decency, and is very important to being a good guest overseas.
Bingo. Looks like you fricking losers CANT just AMBLE AROUND ALONE sorry HAHA you just can’t is all! (unless you’re strategic about it)
>overheard the hotel owner's 7-something year old daughter asking if i hated people
UH OH losers! it looks like I was right and even BARELY SENTIENT 7 year old girls are forming JUDGEMENTS. Looks like that’s just part and parcel and all the ratshits in this thread who try to claim muh nObOdy cArEs are absolutely oblivious morons
>a teen b***h told the two guys she was with that she hated seeing people alone and it was sad to witness
Do I need to say more! Of course not!
Holy shit if this is real
If you are the type of person that talks like this then yes, by all means stay inside until you have socially acceptable people to adopt you
homosexual
>even BARELY SENTIENT 7 year old girls are forming JUDGEMENTS
Not only that, but she was the daughter of the hotel's owner, so she has probably seen thousands of travelers but still think solo travelers are weirdos.
More irl anecdotes and all the “muh nObodY CareS” nerds have is “trust me bro” bullshit
Yea “trust me bro” you’re being judged you frickin dork. Now next you step out of your On Nut apartment there better be a WHITE skinned Thai girl (or two) in toe. None of that frickin brown village girl bullshit. Stop making farang look even shittier.
Thanks!
no
I don't care what others think about me unless it's positive. I have autism.
You will also, with almost 100% certainty, never see the people you encountered traveling again. Who cares what some gay things about you.
mental illness
Unironically this, even down to the words "beta" and "cuck" which I never use. I read a post on reddit years ago that stuck with me due to its absurdity: "how do I go to a bar alone?"
Yet this thread is full of pathetic shit like that. You're all reddit-tier losers.
That had nothing to do with his post. You're arguing a point he never made, which is another reddit quality. Literally get AIDS.
>"how do I go to a bar alone?"
It's not a stupid question, going alone in a place literally packed with strangers is the stuff of nightmares. I almost fainted once in a small takeout restaurant in Italy, it was like 20sqm with 20 people in.
You make me fricking sick.
I only went to bars when I was already drunk, in Tokyo and NYC.
Now I don't drink. Don't go into bars.
But I have no problem at all going to a restaurant/ cafe on my own.
Sometimes it's a lot easier to get room service (if in a swanky western hotel).
Most often I buy grazing type dinner dips chips that kind of thing
weird cope lol
>people would never eat out when theyre travelling for work or something
We're reaching levels of autism that shouldn't even be possible
Nobody thinks like this, if you think like this you are 100% a terminally online flamboyant Black person who probably has anime-tier monologues with themselves
I need you fricking deplorables to understand this - You can go anywhere alone and no one will care. Do you know why? You are not affecting their existence. Yes, if you walk around wearing a trenchcoat and have some unique gait and are also wearing golden sunglasses, people may think what are they doing, why are they dressed like that etc.
Other than that? Just go enjoy life. Frick you idiots surprise me with just how stupid you can get every single day
>Nobody thinks like this (...) You can go anywhere alone and no one will care.
I traveled alone for a week in Europe last year, during this week (that was mostly a good trip) i had at last 3 occurrences of people judging me because i was solo traveling:
-at the hotel, i overheard the hotel owner's 7-something year old daughter asking if i hated people (which i admittedly do)
-in the plane, some agro b***h made some comments to her cuck boyfriend about me (she was jealous i had the window seat and pretended i was rude because i was wearing a baseball cap or whatever)
-I was eating a sandwich at one time and a teen b***h told the two guys she was with that she hated seeing people alone and it was sad to witness
-at a restaurant, the waitress was very nice but it felt kind of patronizing, but this one is mostly me i guess, because there was another guy alone at the restaurant who was way more autist than me, like literally wearing a fedora.
Not that these were huge moments, but enough to think about it and think about how i could have avoided some of them.
>asking if i hated people (which i admittedly do)
>Not that these were huge moments, but enough to think about it and think about how i could have avoided some of them
You don't hate people, you wish you had friends to travel with. Proof being I hate black people and if some black people were talking talking shit about me I literally wouldn't care because they're nothing to me. You cared though.
Get some friends, homosexual.
I travel alone, half because i have no one to go with, but half by choice as well.
I already travelled with my ex many times before, it was a mixed bag.
For some reason, they always start to become psychotic a few days in. And I have friends, but none are travelers, so there is that.
They need to know you are friendly and willing. A tongue flick and a wink would have defused most those circumstances.
>people may think what are they doing, why are they dressed like that etc.
Got that a lot in Japan, for the most part no one gives a shit what you dress like in Australia you could dress like a bum for all they care and people would just go along with their business as usual.
But in Japan if your fashion sense is a bit off you will get a lot of comments.
I think some of the funniest comments I encountered were one guy that started singing some power rangers like song when he spotted me wearing a yellow jacket and similar colours was probably a bit too gaudy and bright they tend to prefer darker and more neutral colours on men at least. Other men in Osaka would just say Yabbai! YABBAI! twice for emphasis
Another time I was wearing a long white jacket which also was odd there because from observation it seems that's what women mostly wore.
Some guy in harajuku passing me by said "what the frick?" lol.
I overestimated how cold it would be in december so I was wearing two heattech layers and that puffer, it was too hot so when I wore it I had the jacket open. Two dudes passed by I think in yokohama and started singing something from Jojo and reciting some phrases from Jojo when they spotted me lol.
The women either really liked it or really disliked it when you stood out, there didn't seem to be an in between unless they were feeling sorry for you being so ignorant about their cultural norms.
>But in Japan if your fashion sense is a bit off you will get a lot of comments.
Been to Japan many times, always in summer. Mostly wore fashion sneakers mid calf socks, long shorts (bought in Kyoto) tshirt. Sometimes accessorised with a Nihon style tengui head cloth or neck kerchief. The only thing I noticed was people glancing at my socks (they were dress socks, pastel colours patterns).
One hot summer I wore sport shorts and tshirt and Nihon style towel around my neck. While waiting at crossing got a "tough" stare from some young punks which I took as a compliment anyhow.
I didn't notice it until I started tune into what they are saying since I started noticing a pattern in comments. And was curious to know what was being said about me as I passed by.
Males:
Yabai-Yabai
Yanki
Roppoy
Yowanakai
Omoshee
Donna?
Artisto?
Rushya?
Saikeen
Gachi!
Okashi Daro
Yoko wakaranai
Dame des
Women:
Mezurashi Taypu
Suggoi
Kawaii soni
Ninki
youtubu?
Kuwae
Kawaii
Yoropa?
Acchiii!
Yabayte Kuzuyte
Juji
Wakkai
Seishun
Fuwa Fuwa Taypu
Ryotto jan
Sonna keshka nayya
>no one gives a shit what you dress like in Australia
Live my life in sweat shorts, t-shirts, crocs, singlets. Sometimes go shirtless in open air markets and street, no one gives a frick.
Have worn compression shorts and leggings at gym and afterwards shopping with no big deal. As a male have worn earrings, eyeliner, eye makeup, skirt, sarong. No one gives a frick.
Earrings and eyeliner to my church group. No one cares.
The only comment I ever got was when I went running wearing only square cut swimming trunks and passerby said "weirdo" but I might have even imagined that.
Lmao I actually did this 2 hours ago. I do it regularly and don't feel any awkwardness or shame. There were 2 other dudes doing the same too today. I don't think it's that rare especially in more fancy places.
Are you from the US ? I think they are way more sensible about how they're perceived even as fricking customers who are just spending a good time.
>3 people sitting alone in a michelin star restaurants at the same time
Sure buddy. It's such a rare sight that I'm convinced you've never set foot in a michelin starred restaurant in your life. You're probably sitting on plastic patio in some Thai cafe or some shit
I passed in front of it today and there were 2 solos including a cute ~25yo girl.
....this is bait right. Because I sit alone at michelin star restaurants all the time. 🙁 not my fault nobody wants to go with me.
I'll go wit u lil homie
I do not.
I'd go but I'm broke.
I went to eat at a fancy Argentinian steak house while in Saigon and tried Wagyu beef, while chilling out and listening to music, why are you so insecure about being by yourself
That sentence would absolutely send any Vietnam boat refugee from the 80s.
the fancy argentinian steak house is probably owned by a boat person who returned. i knew a boat person who was now canadian and went to saigon for the winter to live with his siblings. he was a millionaire businessman in canada, now retired. his money supported and financed many family businesses and many family members in saigon. it wouldn't be out of the ordinary.
If you ever find yourself in this situation, just bring a pen and notepad with you, and periodically scribble on it. People will think you're a critic and will be impressed instead of cringing.
>I saw a guy sitting alone at a 4-seat table in a packed michelin star restaurant.
he could have made this non-cringe by taking a laptop and a mobile phone and pretended to be making some high level stock market trades whilst eating his Michelin star food
pretending to do something is homosexualry 101
buy an ad
Earlier today, I was thinking about something:
What if, for a moment, you could put on VR glasses and a bodysuit, and then send into the world in a dronesuit humanbody, controlled by you. Decent voice link, haptics, etc, convincing enough that others think you're real. Imagine how much fun you could have - you could obvious go and perform crime etc, but you could also simply go try out social strategies - think habbo hotel but real. You could go talk to a girl at a bar, see what works, what doesn't, go try to make a friend, play-act as a boisterous chad, etc.
This line of thinking made me start considering just how unbelievably inhibited I am in real life. I started to think, wait, that doesn't need to be a fantasy; as long as I stay within the constraints of the law, I could actually, really go do that stuff. In fact, I assume that it wouldn't harm my social standing; if anything, it would skyrocket it!
But I don't think I could actually do it, without the detachment of the cyborg. In real life, I would freeze up and become submissive the moment anyone came within 20 feet of me.
I don't really have a solution. I guess I should go touch grass more.
>think habbo hotel but real
I would larp as a black man in a suit and block swimming pool entrances.
>I don't think I could actually do it, without the detachment of the cyborg. In real life, I would freeze up
I bet there's some kind of dissociative substance that induces the feeling of detachment one would experience operating the cyborg
I'm on 130 mg of memantine right now and certainly feel robotic. Memantine is easy to obtain because it's unscheduled in most countries.
People will call me an autist again (and i am), but GTA did that for me.
GTA helped to understand that could could just walk alone in the street, and just explore cities without having to justify youtself.
It's very funny that I had very similar realisation which is what pushed me to travelling to begin with.
I was replaying Fallout New Vegas and became absolutely obsessed with it and just began to think to myself if only I could do this in real life, just going around travelling, meeting people, doing jobs for them and then I realised wait I literally can do that. Nothing is stopping me doing that and the places that exist in the game exist irl.
I was an unemployed NEET from England and literally used my unemployment money to buy a plane ticket to NY and hitchhiked to LA, on the way I met people, did odd jobs and even went to Zion national park and goodsprings all because of the game.
any cool stories? what do you do now?
>did odd jobs
How many dicks did you suck, anon? Be honest.
I solo travel because I already have plenty of experience traveling with other people. I rarely get to do what I want, so now my personal travels are for me. I'm surrounded by people in my daily life, so traveling is a way for me to have some me-time.
So what city is it? I don't want to watch the video
Salvador. He says it within the first 20 seconds.
cool
If I see someone sitting alone in any public place I make the inference that they’re a defeated, socially-maladjusted loser, and that it’s to such a severe degree that NOBODY is willing to voluntarily spend time with them.
This is what EVERY SINGLE normal person thinks when they see you sitting alone ESPECIALLY when it’s a place where you SHOULD be with someone like a sit down restaurant or movie theatre.
I feel for these people because I myself am an isolated, schizoid loser who suffered too many social defeats and so I simply gave up. But I’m still considerate. I go to great pains to find places where I can sit alone and not unsettle other people.
My best friend in the world is places with patio seating that looks out onto the street so you can just stare off into space and you’re not facing anyone. So comfy
you think like this because you are a queer schizophrenic, look at the homosexual shit you're saying.
to any other anons reading this moron's post, no, that is not what normal people think. in fact, they don't think about you at all unless you start screaming out loud or glaring at others or some dumb shit
Literally no one cares or gives a shit about anything but themselves. No one is going to pay any attention. You only pay attention because you're projecting
this is textbook projection m8. you are projecting your own insecurities.
I am an expat, and expats dont go to movies
I wanted to see the Oppenheimer in IMAX and booked a ticket for one, went ahead and bought myself a large popcorn and a coke (zero obv), fully expecting to be the only alone guy in the theater
I kid you not it was full of single dudes with large popcorns
its awesome to be with company, but those on the road know this is not always the case. be OK with circumstances all the time and concede to the fact that people are in a similar position. this can either help you cope with being lonesome, or elevate you to make new friends - or both
>If I see someone sitting alone in any public place I make the inference that they’re a defeated, socially-maladjusted loser, and that it’s to such a severe degree that NOBODY is willing to voluntarily spend time with them.
If you're seeing me, then the inference is correct. Well done.
Nice projection, insecure weirdo.
also mental illness
yeah this thread is just sad more than anything
Look at how many people replied. They KNOW I’m fricking right and they have to cling to the cope. They KNOW they’ve been that fricking guy and they KNOW the natives are looking with bewilderment at the pasty white DORK hunched in the corner under the awning of “YouMeHappy Coffee Shop” while everyone else is gathered together
This cat got claws! Meoww!
Who the frick hurt you during your childhood, internet meangirl?
I don’t always travel alone, but a lot of it is because the dating scene at home sucks and my friends aren’t as wealthy as I am so they can’t always go on trips with me. A mix of solo and group trips both have their ups and downs. I just went to Japan with a group of friends, and it was fun but sometimes your friends become too much and you want to be alone. There’s nothing wrong with that
>sometimes your friends become too much and you want to be alone
Unless they are total dorks, you can always leave them for a day and do your own thing.
This. Dont forget that women genuinely enjoy sitting at cafés just to people-watch and judge others (and be seen themselves too, but positively).
>someone sitting alone in any public place I make the inference that they’re a defeated, socially-maladjusted loser
*Plays Dies Irae: Requiem*
Holy fricking shit the bait levels here shouldn't even be possible. This is like a Chinese fishing trawler given digital form.
kek
I don't know if I'm rolling different, but I've only heard or seen admiration or indifference in response to it.
Why are suppose to be with someone in cinema? homie be silent you watching a movie.
The whole purpose of going to the cinema is to set a sex trap.
Try doing this. But looking around instead of at your feet. You'll notice that a room of people is yours to influence. Sit back spread your legs, member that you are a man, it's not that hard.
This b8 lmao. If not b8 then this is the saddest, gayest autistic drivel I've read this year.
>I'd be too afraid
We know. That's why you know this guy's name, and he doesn't know yours.
>We know
"We" as in the Slanderous Internet Homosexuals Club, mean girl homosexual.
If you give a shit about other people, or what other think about you, then you are a cuck.
You are having your brain real estate and cycles claimed by other human beings. They are fricking your brain and occupying it.
Once you free yourself of caring about what nobodies think about you, then you can keep your brain occupied with subjects that you care about.
This goes both ways. If you're a little gay and get upset when you see a guy doing something alone, he is fricking your brain and occupying it rent free. You're being brain-cucked by allowing yourself to care.
Getting angry at solo travelers is the same thing as being angry that a guy fricked your girlfriend.
>only I was allowed to enjoy this
>wtf I put in this work but another guy enjoyed this?
>wtf he just came and went and didn't even care about me?
It's cuck-rage. It's the same thing.
t.
Ohhhh god I'm on the patio of a restaurant watching the sunset while enjoying a beer and dinner by myself I'm such a loser I'm goingggg innnsaaaaaaaaaanee ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Have sex lmao
I travelled solo to thailand, philipiness and japan
I like it
Don't say this anon, I'm planned to go solo travelling for 2 months next year
You overcome it simply by being alone constantly and getting used to it. In time, you learn to tune out the funny looks you get from other people and the feelings of inner sadness from not having a partner to enjoy your vacations with/eating out with.
After all, you SHOULD try traveling with someone else. I promise you that it's NOTHING like it's described and in the movies. It's quite stressing actually, and I've found that it can completely ruin the trip if your travel partner has different ideas than you do.
> They get passive aggressive CONSTANTLY
> They don't want to go to the same restaurants you do
> They complain about your sleep habits
> They find a frick partner for one night and kick you out at 3-4am during your dead sleep
Just a few examples above of what's happened to me when I brought a travel partner..
Took my mate to Japan, took him on a pub crawl he hooked up with a gaijin hunter, spent the rest of the trip staring at his phone messaging her. I just abandoned him after that idgaf
I force the bartender to talk to me when I'm sitting at the bar
only time i genuinely cringed at another traveler was when I was eating at a night market (solo traveling btw) in Bangkok watching this American guy get berated and nagged at by his mid indian gf in front of everyone about some stupid woman shit. He was just taking it too. Imagine having to put up with something like that on your few precious vacation days. Flying across the world for that???
Made me incredibly thankful for my freedom.
Solo travelling is equally liberating and pathetic in my opinion. Having travelled solo myself, there are times when you are so glad of the freedom and other times when you feel like a total loser. What is worse is seeing other awkward solo travellers playing miserably with their phones in a restaurant or sat alone outside a crowded bar trying to look happy. Female solo travellers are generally some of the most unhappy looking people I've ever seen. Until they inevitably get picked up by some Chad I suppose.
As for the hypernormie Youtubers, the lack of originality and self-awareness is typical of their personality type. Unless I was making serious cash from videos, I could not be remotely bothered with the effort required to get some cliched drone footage and selfie sticking my entire waking day.
solo traveling is good, but exploring the city solo isnt as good
you need to socialise and know someone who might know someone down to hangout a bit or something
>Like at the end of this video when he simply goes playing soccer with teens, i'd be too affraid to look like a groomer or something.
i'm from south america, playing football with random people/teens is normal, nothing weird about that
whats cringe is walking around solo with a stick with your phone on it lol
how do they not feel embarrassed? do they just think of the fact they're technically going to be talking to like thousands of people?
I still couldn't do it. I was filming something for a forum once and still felt like a weird gay.
only time I've felt kind of weird going somewhere alone was at a theme park, even then I got over it in like 2 seconds
OP is right, you shouldn't go out alone and it's actually ruined my life.
>be quite successful, married with a kid, good job in an international marketing company
>I get sent in China for 3 weeks to build a partnership
>we sign a huge contract and I want to celebrate it on my last day
>I really want to go in a famous restaurant to eat garlic shrimps
>people I worked with can't come and say I should absolutely not go there alone or I'll be viewed as come creep and ruin both our companies image
>I rent some top tier escort to just go for dinner then
>spend a good time, no touching or whatever, just eat and take separate taxis when leaving the place
>I go back home and my wife somehow found out about it
>show me the escort details online where she talks about how she loves anal and stuff
>get divorced, lose my job because of the scandal, financially ruined
>now 7 years later I'm on Bui Vien walking street every night smoking balloons and hanging with other expat rejects, still have huge debts and child support to pay
ain't that a kick in the head
is it hard to cope knowing you could have fricked her in the ass with no additional consequences?
I would commit suicide
>I should absolutely not go there alone or I'll be viewed as come creep and ruin both our companies image
nice greentext story, anon
It's true some people care, but then again when some morons make a tiktok making fun of a guy being alone it usually backlashes at them and they get lots of hate. Shitty people will care that you go alone, but you should give them any form of respect to actually care about lowlifes, people who just project their own insecurity or kids.
but you didn't go alone. how did going alone ruin your life
7/10 bait, but your life wouldn't have been ruined if you actually went alone instead of paying people to pretend to have a social life lmao.
SighSee in 2016
>I'm travelling alone in Africa, going from north to south by motorbike, and I met a nice Belgian anon along the way! Here are some pics
SighSee in 2023
>I went eating at Olive Garden alone and everyone made fun of me in my head, I ran back home and cried
There is truly nothing redeemable about this website anymore ffs
i blame zoomers, flyovers, and eastern yuros.
Good summary.
People today are afraid to go alone, THIS is cringe, especially on SighSee
Stop judging me, i already have social anxiety posting here.
It seems like a very persistent troll, or possibly a failed normalgay that expects everyone else to think like them
>seems like a very persistent troll
There's 64 single posters in this thread and the opinion about solo travels is 50/50. And i'm pretty sure that if you say you solo travel to normies, you will get frowned upon half of the time.
this zoomers and underage have ruined the site. its not just trv
Which loks weirder: sitting at a table in a restaurant by yourself, or sitting at the bar in the same restaurant drinking only ice water and eating a full meal?
Sitting at the bar alone implies that you're ready to meet strangers and be social.
Sitting at a table implies that you have autism.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Sitting at a table by yourself is pretty autistic, but worrying about what everyone thinks about you for sitting by yourself is even more autistic. Still, if you genuinely don't want to sit in a restaurant by yourself, just make sure you only go to restaurants with bars, and ask to sit at the bar.
Nobody gives a frick about you. No-one.
I travel a lot for business, so I'm kind of used to it. But I feel often out of place, so I prefer to get some tinder dates or drag people from work to go with me. But sometimes it's not possible, so I don't have any other options than to go by myself. If you go to a bar, that's not a real issue, because there are more people who are by themselves and you can easy talk with strangers. For restaurants it's easy for lunch, but diners are strange. It also depends on country and regions, but in general people don't really care.
>It also depends on country and regions
What would you say are the easiest countries to travel alone?
The USA is the worst for traveling alone. Western Europe is shit. Eastern Europe is a crapshoot. Everywhere else? Pretty damn easy if you know a bit of language to help.
It depends on the region of the USA. People are very outgoing, I found it easy in the South and Midwest.
Europe is total shit, people stay by themselves.
Rest of the world is pretty easy too, you doesnt even need to need the language, but I look very European, so people are in general very curious.
You just don't have confidence anon
You need to tell yourself sometimes, "I don't care if I look autistic, I'm wasting my life savings so it better be worth it" and just go flex your tourist status sometimes