Do eye-contacts distract you?

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Yes, I can't look at someone and think about what I'm saying at the same time. I've tried to practice glancing at them now and then, but I guess I don't do it subtly enough, because they look sort of startled when I do that, like I'm a detective who's eyeballing them to get them to spill the truth...

I can look at people when they're talking to me, but it feels sort of weird. Like others have said, it's too personal, too intimate.

I sometimes try to look at their eyes and I do get very distracted and then I hear nothing they say. I look at their mouth because If I don't understand or hear everything they say I can still get it from their mouth. And other times I look around the room and get distracted by noises

Yes I do. That's why I don't look at people when I talk to them or I'm listening to them. If I look at them I can't get what they're saying or tell them clearly what I'm saying.

I suppose I do. My family went to have photos taken for a directory last week. As the photographer girl was asking me questions pertinent to the task it was all I could do but gaze in a daze around the room. At papers, scribbles on marker boards, the texture of the mortal blocks in the wall. I don't doubt I appear crazy or at least on good drugs but I did find myself torn between the words coming out of her mouth and that darned wall texture. And generally when I do force myself to make eye contact I do so with such direct laser beam intensity that I either scare/creep the living hell out of the other person. Can't win for losing.

eye contact hurts for me its.. wrired.. though ive been told i have goodeye contact.. but what they dont know is im looking at their nose

I always look away, or look at peoples mouth or nose, I guess that is sort
of being distracted, its almost painful to look into someones eyes, mine
tear up and I get faint.

Yes, very distracting to look in to peoples eyes when I am trying to talk. I can look when I am listening though - actually I think this helps me 'feel' them as they talk - also helps me tell if they are lying. But it is almost impossible for me to casually talk and look right in to someones eyes/face. It drives people crazy - I have had people look where I am looking, or move sideways in to my field of view. It is just how my thought process works - I have to look away so I can speak what I am thinking.