They want everything except their body to be noticed because they have body image issues (as they should). This shame is misinterpreted as anxiety rather than an acknowledgment of something actually being seriously wrong with them (as in, their gluttonous, fat bodies).    Sympathy. "Oh, you're so brave for being fat in public!"    Special snowflake Olympiad has to collect all 150 oppression points, social anxiety being one of them.    Take your pick.