I have experience this also. First of all I want to say you’re not crazy. Second of all I’m surprised why so many people know so little about this bullying tactic. The coughs are fake but not so obviously fake, they are put on coughs. Definitely to mess with you psychologically somehow I don’t get why what’s the need of this kind of passive aggression. It makes you feel unwanted.
e.g.
I walk up to a group of friends & some other people. The “others” we both know of each other, but we aren’t exactly friends. Everything was fine. Until I walked over there. When I walked over there, all of a sudden they were having a coughing fit. They felt the need to cough, but the whole time I was sitting in the corner of the room observing they did not cough. Until I was right there in their proximity.
I think they do this to make you feel out of place, unwanted, unwelcome and uncomfortable.
I never make accounts much, are usually just read what people post, but I made this account, so you know you arent alone. This needs to have more awareness spread to it, with less stigma of people being crazy.
