I'm kind of specific about things and this is caused by my anxiety. There are certain foods I won't eat. Like very specific foods. And when they're offered to me or someone cooks them for me, I need to know what all is in it, how long it was cooked for, and how long it was left out for. When I ask these things I am usually met with an impatient sigh. I understand it can get tedious, but how else am I to know? It will only make me worry more if I don't know what's in it. I make my own food, so don't think it is me just being lazy. This just happens when someone cooks something for me even without me asking.

Or when I am invited out to a restaurant or fast food place with someone else and I say I don't want to go because I don't like it, they get irritated. I have very few places where I feel comfortable to eat but sometimes people don't like going there. You can eat where ever you want, I just don't want to go. Why are you upset with me? And then they get more irritated when they change the restaurant so I can go. But I didn't ever ask you to change it. Why are you mad at me? What was it that I did wrong?

When I go to movies in the theater, I am only comfortable sitting in the very back corner by the stairs. Anywhere else and I get anxious for various reasons that are too long to list. When I go to movies with other people, I tell them to sit where ever they want and I can sit where ever I want. When I sit in the very back corner where the screen looks distorted, the other person or people get upset with me and say that I chose horrible seats even though I told them to sit where they want. I don't know how to de-escalate the situation when they do that. I'm not forcing them to do anything. I just like things how I like them.

There are more situations where this happens, these are just the one's that happen often. In all of these instances, it only makes my anxiety worse, because then I feel like I've done something wrong and feel I am too scared to talk or even move. My mind doesn't stop racing and thinking about if these people hate me and are going to leave me. How do I fix this? How do I stop being so picky?