Going out in public.

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Because in the corner of the eye (or actually at the bottom of our eyesight) we keep watch on the ground and if there is anything uneven we avoid it... The way I avoid it is by looking down when such thing comes... Of course, I do trip once in a while but no one actually really notice it unless they are with me... And personally my friends know that they shouldn't laugh at me when I do unless I laugh first because I find it humiliating sometimes... And they respect that... But I think most people just keep some minor attention to the ground when they walk...

Scan the ground ahead of you and then look up.

For virtually my entire adult life I have worn sunglasses when I have to go out & walk amongst people. I make sure they are dark enough that people looking at me cannot see through them to my eyes. This has always helped me a lot.

My daughter has told me that some people are "on to me" ~ that they realize I use my eye-covers (dark glasses) to keep from meeting eyes w/them, so I can cross the street to avoid interactions (sometimes). Maybe so, but they can't prove that I saw them because they can't see my eyes. (Um, this is my own thought.... to be honest, my daughter probably knows, better than I do, how people react to me nowadays.) But I feel that although they might suspect that I'm avoiding them, I don't think they are certain.

I try not to go out in public unless I'm able to handle a few interactions; most of all in the small town where I've lived for decades, because I know I'll run into people I know. Nobody has seen me in forever, since I've become somewhat of a recluse over the last few years, so it's always going to be that reunion thing.

I do that too.

Having been around a bit over the years I've discovered that walking down any road like you haven't a care in the world works fine. Some may find it hard to do, I did at first, but once it clicked that the confident look is a deterrent to the idiots out there it became much easier.

Being 6' tall and around 200lb in weight tends to help as well.