reading that I would have just assumed it was copypasta.
I tried eating an apple while giving a fuck, but juice kept dripping on her face.
You’re doing it wrong.
It’s just distraction, when I cut my grass or exercising that’s all I’m focused on at that moment and it’s good to get out of your own head sometimes.
In line with the thread about eating food the wrong way. I posit that we’ve all been eating apples the wrong way: Eat an Apple Like a Boss.
Instead of eating it around the core and leaving roughly 30% wasted. Eat it from the top down and eat the whole damn thing.
Oh, and I think the reddit post is full of shit.
You *definitely *win the thread. 
Ditto. And also not kidding. I also worry that I’m never sure if I prefer the end nearer the stem or nearer the blossom scar. It seems that one end is sweeter, but the other end is more thirst slaking. So which do I want to end my apple experience with? Do I eat all the other end first? Go back and forth like a typewriter? Or even (horrors!) take random bites that don’t connect? No, no, never the last. The universe would implode or something.
Apples are stressful.
Yeah, this pretty much nails it. I used to go to clubs a lot many years ago, and I was usually shy and nervous, yet wanted to join in. A friend suggested that I hold a drink- it didn’t matter much whether I actually drank it or not, the important thing was that simply holding a drink made me look 1000% less awkward than just standing there nervously. The same thing goes for parties where you don’t know a lot of people.
I think in clinical psychology too, they have a term for objects- “grounding devices.” Stuff like playing with silly putty or a stress ball, etc.
I kind of disagree. It is not impossible to have social anxiety while eating an apple. That’s like saying that it’s impossible to feel nervous while reciting a speech in front of an audience. Performing an action doesn’t stop someone from feeling all kinds of things.
But what it does is promote desensitization. Initially, a person with SAD may be nervous as hell eating an apple. But then he or she notices that no one is paying them any attention and they become less embarrassed.
Hopefully, this person will then start to understand that no one is paying attention to them all the other times either.
Ideally, a person doesn’t care whether anyone notices them. When I first started developing motor tics, I was embarrassed as hell. My therapist thought I would benefit from taking a yoga class, but the idea of everyone inwardly judging me made me hesitant. She would tell me, “Don’t worry. No one is even going to notice!” But I didn’t find that helpful. I know that I notice when people are behaving in weird ways in my presence, so why would I assume I’m invisible to others? After going to class a few times, I got confirmation. People can’t help but to see someone who is jerking and twitching and falling. But what kept me going to class was the realization that “being noticed” is not the end of the world. They noticed me, I noticed them noticing. And fun was still had by all.
Someone might notice you eating that apple, because you might be unusually loud and messy or whatever. And you may even notice them noticing you. They may even express disapproval with their body language! But just keep eating the damn thing anyway. Apples are delicious.