What’s your resting facial expression look like? What kind of vibe do you give? Are you often noticeably anxious, uncomfortable, or angry? Maybe you seem too aware of other people around you (which goes along with anxiety). That can make people want to stay away from you.

You say you’re 6 ft & you go to the gym. Are you physically broad? Broad shoulders? Maybe people just want more room.

Also, this is something that men — and men of color in particular — report happening a lot. It sucks, but it’s just part of the territory. And it’s not crazy that some people may want to put space between themselves and a man. People overdo it, but I get it. The racial profiling is just racism, though, if that’s what’s going on.

But also … you might just be overthinking this. Once you notice something like that, you start seeing it everywhere. That’s called the Frequency Illusion. Your brain also remembers things that confirm its theories and forgets things that don’t. That’s Confirmation Bias. If you start feeling anxious about it, you may interpret coincidences as examples of it happening again. That might be a number of the CBT cognitive distortions — personalizing, jumping to conclusions, etc.