Have you ever been invisible?

I have gone through that a couple of times. I don't think about it the wrong way though. There are just so people who just don't jive with the things you like and your very different from each other. I think that It's how you face the situation and don't get discouraged about it. Just think of it that some of the people also feel this and when you feel that person you know is in that kind of state, the best thing to do is acknowledge and try to know more about that person. Atleast you were able to help that person out because you know how it feels in that state.

Well, I've always felt being invisible when I was in grade school. It felt like no one often notices me, they don't even know I was in the room. Maybe because I was really shy and quiet at that time. I was so young, and I have only few friends. I don't even speak loud enough for anyone to hear. I always felt like an air before.

If I could truly become invisible then I would be in ecstasy, it would be something I would love to have the ability to do, I would certainly payback a few emotional debts to people who have hurt me, sadly I only wish that invisibility meant just that, disappearing but no I have been invisible for most of my life it seems, the worst was at school, I was either bullied when invisibility would have come in useful or treated like I didn't exist. My face didn't fit, I was treated as though I wasn't there, everyone would be invited to parties, out to play games or social groups etc, but I was totally ignored. You think you'd get used to it wouldn't you? But it hurts, and as a child it can have a deep emotional impact on you which you carry through to your teens, and certainly adult life. Even now in my late thirties I am still ignored and treated as though I am invisible. Why do think I hate being around people, defensive, hostile and avoid any social situation. I have become set in my ways and I prefer a life alone away from people. People have rejected me, so I in turn reject them for what they have done to me and I don't give them the opportunity now, I reject them FIRST and treat them as invisible.

I felt like that into my late teens. I was so shy as a kid, and my older sister (by 2 years) talked like nobody's business! So I really didn't have a chance to talk much. At the dinner table, I would raise my hand so I could get my parents and sister's attention that I wanted to say something! And then in my teenage years I was even more terribly depressed. I avoided any and all social situations if I could get away with it. When I was 22 I was diagnosed as bipolar. I was relieved to finally know why I was always so sad. I never felt like anyone ever "saw" me, and didn't care to. Of course being how I was, it wouldn't have been easy to get to know me anyway.

I wish I could literally be invisible then I could play all sorts of practical jokes on people and get away with it,but when it comes to feeling invisible then I have had a lot of times like that,when I was in school I was a quiet shy kid,and I always stayed in the background so I felt invisible since no one liked me,and no one payed me any attention,and I basically just let it go like that until I started making friends and they helped me stop being invisible,and it did kind of upset me and it made me not want to go to school,I wanted to stay home and sleep,and play my video games,since playing video games has always made me feel better.

Yes, I have felt like that no one around was willing to acknowledge my presence on an occasion or two. There are times where I feel like everyone around me is off in their own little world. Doing there own little thing and thus what I do around them is not important. There were many times like this in high school, too many to mention and none of them being specific. However, I do not really mind that. If I want to draw attention to myself, I'll draw attention to myself. However, I am not the type of person who needs to be the center of attention all of the time. Everyone can just do their own little time. Sometimes its just best to sit back and be a casual observer at best. Look at what's going on around me in the area. It did not really upset me at all. I just sat back.

Yes many a time when I was married as that is how I was made to feel by my ex Husband even when we went out he would make me feel that way I never went out a lot anyway Yes it did hurt me and it also made me go more and more into a Shell where I stayed for many Years it is only the last 5 years this Shell has been destroyed I have been divorced 6 years now and bit by bit I turned into the real me

My husband enjoys going to high school reunions at the high school he should have graduated from. He was in his fifties when we married, so they are all used to him being single, and he is a unique person, who never feels slighted or anything. I have gone to one or two of these, we have to travel across several states to do so. I am 95% invisible at these occasions. No one has a word to say to me. Bob can go and hang around and at least be acknowledged, but I am not. I do not enjoy it. I do try to take part in discussions, but it just does not work.

The explained sort of condition is experienced quite often...may be I am not catching up with the newest trends on account of retiring from public service and the aging process setting in ...

It seems to happen to me more than I would like. Mostly it's like I start talking and they just either start talking over the top of me or just walk out of the room. It's like am I talking to quiet? or am I just that boring.

For me, not really.. because I think that's because I have a great family and love ones around me. I sometimes feel moody, but to feel invisible, I haven't felt that way before. I know what you mean though.. and it can be a real bummer to be not noticed or cared for by family and love ones.

Yes, I have been invisible a lot of times. Most of it is during my high school days. I have a friend, people often call us "twins" because we sort of look alike and have the same interests. But she was more popular than me. Every time we're together, people from different levels will say hi to her but not me even though we're together. They don't bother to acknowledge me. And if she's absent or not around, that's when the time people will notice me, but later on, I would find out the only reason they talk to me is because they want to know the whereabouts of my "friend." It's so annoying at times and I often complain about it to my other friend. I had an identity crisis back then. That time is when I really felt invisible. :(

I've been to a few social gatherings/parties, where I've felt invisible. But in many more instances, I wish I were invisible...a fly on the wall, so to speak, to overhear some discussions.

JJ4Ever it happened to me once, when I went out with my older cousin and some of his friends. Because they were older than me they were talking about all sort of things that i didn`t know, and I actually felt embarassed. But after a few minutes, I`ve understood their jokes and conversations, and told things as they did. Surprisingly it worked and the rest of the night I had the time of my life, altough at the start I was invisible for them.

hi jj4ever this is sort of funny so at least smile. When I was pregnant with my son,50 yrs back, this was my last visit to the ob gny before my due date. so you can imagine I was pretty big. So I had a ten oclock apointment with the ob gyn and was there at fifteen to the hour. One after another other pregnant ladies were escorted in by the nurse, I waited and waited til I knew this lady coming out was the last person who had signed the sign up sheet .then I called to the nurse,didnt you forget someone here maam? She looked at the sign up sheet and came over, Oh i am so sorry Mrs. Hatley,I just did not see you. come on back.So back I went. but I had the doctor laughing as I teased them both, how could you not see me, over this big belly? or am I invisible? the doctor pinched me gently on my arm . Helen he said, she is visible so i guess you need new glasses. she blushed and apologized again to me. I was nine months pregnant due the next day may 21 but I did not deliver to June 5th. he he.