Growing up everyone around me treated me like a weird freak for staring off at like a wall or out the window or something else when I was lost in thought or bored, so what are we supposed to do when we’re not actively look at something?
Growing up everyone around me treated me like a weird freak for staring off at like a wall or out the window or something else when I was lost in thought or bored, so what are we supposed to do when we’re not actively look at something?
All those people that treated you as “weird” for this do it themselves as well. If you were gaining special attention for this in particular such that multiple people noticed and weren’t just messing with you, then it’s probably not the fact of your blank staring itself, but the length of time. Normal steady gaze at nothing in particular for periods is normal and people only perceive it as staring when it’s reached some threshold length of time.
Why you specifically might be doing this past that threshold I couldn’t tell you. Many are suggesting ADHD or Autism, could well be but otherwise maybe you’re just finding yourself easily distracted or prefer longer trips into your own head. If you worry about it, best suggestion is just to randomize your gaze periodically in response to stimuli in the room, but the thing is if you’re not already doing that automatically it’s probably because you’re too engrossed in thought for that stimuli to get through.