I’m just going to say it, if you’re ever out, and you see someone give you the “I’m uncomfortable eyes” which are really easy to spot, step in, go up to them, pretend to be a friend, approach them with absolutely no intentions of anything other then helping or intervening.
I’ve done this so many time’s at events, or even outside of events if someone looks like there in a conversation that they don’t want to be in, and you can fucking tell, STEP IN. Two are more powerful then one and I can guarantee you that person is going to feel so much better.
Let them know, there are ways to signal that you’re staying until they feel okay, show them your phone with a note saying “I know you don’t know me but say yes if you’re uncomfortable and need help”.
So if we’re at events, and you see me or I see you and you look uncomfortable I will make my presence known to that person that I’m there, Idgaf about my own person safety, if enough people did this it would be harder for abusers/sexual harassers to harass in public spaces.
and if your wondering how you can tell if someone needs help, simply even mouth “are you okay” to that person and their eyes will say it all.
A couple of people said what are the signs so here’s a couple;
Self-soothing, neuro typical people will do this when in uncomfortable situations.
Shuffling on the spot.
Closed off arms or crossing arms over their chest.
Looking around instead of full eye contact.
Fast breathing, keep an eye out for heavy sounding breathe or really quick short breaths in if your in hearing distance.
Tapping or shaking a leg, could even be on their drink if they’re holding something.

These are just a few, but some of these are extremely important.
Lastly, and I can’t stress this enough, doing anything other than doing nothing could litterally SAVE SOMEONES LIFE, mentally or physically. So please don’t just do nothing, do something.
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