Assumptions People Make About You... Which Drive You Crazy

[nuba km]

Some people think because I look at the ground I am sad, I am not, I just have aspergers and a common trait of that is to look down at an angle most of the time(when you aren't looking at anything specific).

That I can't tell how many fingers someone is holding up when I am not wearing glasses, things just look more blurry the further something is away I can still see those fingers.

The any of the many assumptions made about dyslexia.

The assumption that you can't open anything containing nuts within the same room I am in, just don't let it touch me or you touch me after you eat it.

On the other scale the presumption that a nut allergy isn't a big thing.

The presumption that because I do geography that I know were everywhere is, does anyone, apart from people who do geography, know what geography is about? Because with some of the questions I have been asked I don't think so.

That I am not making eye contact with you because I am lying, again aspergers, I look at peoples mouths not their eyes when talking to them, and (at least for me) if I too try to look at someone's eyes it just feels wrong on many levels.

The last one, that I give two shits about sports, and the follow up presumption that because I don't care about sports that I need to get a life.

 

[KillKill]

That I'm a pot-head.....




I don't know where people come up with this s**t.

I get that a hell of a lot. But it's mainly by association I think, I'm the only one of my friend group that isn't.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Most people assume incorrect things about me, but none of them really drive me crazy. In fact I try my best not to pay attention to most people these days.

I get homosexual a lot, or more correctly "Fag" as I am called often in public. Sometimes I think people are too nice...

I don't really get it, but I guess I look gay. I guess because I am pretty transgendered and flippant. I certainly don't look like the stereotypical gay person that are very numerous in my city, nor do I act like one.

Honestly I usually have my earbuds in so I don't have to listen to these silly people.

I also get the whole "Your really shy" comment.....no I just don't want to talk to you.

 

[Murais]

I'm fat.

A lot of people assume that they have to slow down/go light with me because I'm squishy and soft or some shit.

The reality is that I can lift over 350 lbs and I run 4 miles a day. I *like* being active.

 

[The Harkinator]

People think that because I am clever and know a little about a lot I 'Know everything' and make a show of being the smartest person in the world if they know something I don't.

"I know something you, who knows everything doesn't know? I'm smarter than you now."

The fact is people are always trying to pin some sort of label or distinguishing feature on you such as "has temper" "violent" "too smart nerd" "know-it-all" "sporty" people can seize on any part of your personality and attempt to make it your thing. If you don't have a clear label people can put on you then they'll keep looking for anything that suits their opinion of you.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

My girlfriend's brother and his gay friend think I'm gay because I don't give a damn about cars. The gay friend likes cars. I'm in a relationship with the brother's sister. Somewhere along this line something doesn't make sense.

 

[Realitycrash]

I'm ginger so most people like to use the "you have no soul" thing.

As well, because I wear glasses, and since my facial hair grows back so fast (so it's kinda pointless shaving every day you know?) I look like a serial killer or something.

Apparently anyone who resembles this:

(add in the hair as red, and the hair trimmed to a buzz-cut) is a to-be serial killer.

Gets really annoying after a while...

Serial killer, or Badass Scientist From Stargate: Atlantis.

Either fits.

OT: Can't think of anything. People make assumptions all the time (that I'm gay, or that I play in a band, or that I'm stupid, or that I always wear make-up, etc) but it never annoys me, really. I usually find it amusing, and play along with their assumptions (acting gay around males, for instance, or acting like a blond ditz), and then turn the tables when they least expect it.

 

[Artemis923]

That I smoke dope.

Last time somebody asked me that, I asked if they lick scrotal warts.

They were as annoyed as I was after that, a win in my book.

 

[thespyisdead]

Just because i live in a foreign country, under a foreign name, does not mean i don't speak finnish, because i do(and it is more or less flawless), and that kinda drives me nuts... it should not though...

 

[al4674]

That since I use computers a lot I must be into PC's and IT and stuff so I should pursue a career in the field...

Just because I like to use a PC doesn't mean that I care about programming, how to build PC's or whatever. I'll give you an analogy - I like driving a car, but that doesn't mean I would like to sit in some greasy workshop and change tires and mufflers etc.

 

[SecondPrize]

That all I need to do is sample their no-doubt magical cock and I'll be converted.

Ahahaha. To be honest, any sort of conversion is far far down the real list of priorities.

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Things people tend to assume about me when I'm at work on checkouts:

- I'm not smart because I work at checkouts
- Oh I like videogames, that must mean COD or FIFA
- Oh I'm young so I must like going out, getting drunk, and having late nights
(thats... completely the opposite to me... >:/)
- That I like football, or I'm watching the sport event thats currently on
- Because I don't smile so often I must be a miserable git or rude to the customers. No actually I am content, its just that I don't feel like smiling. Quite a lot of the time when I'm working my actual mind is elsewhere, thinking about something usually more pleasant.
- Oh and apparently I'm posh. No. No I'm not, I'm just well spoken. (Probably partly influenced by the Grammar school I used to go to when I was younger, and probably because I am a bit smart than the average person (and I don't hang around the sort of people with colloquial dialect))

I don't really bother so much to explain myself these days, because most people look at me with wild bewilderment once they realise what sort of person I am, (and I am normally WAAAAAAAY beyond the regular person's understanding)

 

[PureChaos]

that because I went to university and got a degree that I know everything.
I was going to be a teacher and did a degree studying the history of education, child psychology, sociology, child development etc. The other day a friend saw a Latin phrase and asked me what it meant but I had no idea. They then said 'didn't you go to university?' and it's not the first time something like that has happened.

 

[Kaymish]

well recently people have been treating me like a moron for some unfathomable reason i am not a idiot or a fool or what ever other word you like i am actually very intelligent and treating me like i am stupid only pisses me of if i have a problem i will ask a question

 

[Broady Brio]

I'm half-Asian, therefore, I should be getting straight A's. Or at least half-A's, if that makes any sense.

Boy I wish this was true.

 

[bulbasaur765]

I hate the assumption that people think I'm an orator event though I barely speak at all. The one time I use the word "genocide" to describe something and the next thing I know people try to elect me as a public speaker. (The only reason I know the word is because I saw it in a game once and I looked it up...)

 

[wottabout]

Not as bad as everyone else's, but I wish people would stop assuming that I am physically weak. I am a pale, small female and I understand if people think I'm weak at first, but the illusion persists even after people have seen me carrying much heavier items. I don't need someone rushing to help me every time I so much as carry a two-by-four across the room. I work out specifically so that I can help in physical situations, so it bothers me when this skill goes to waste.

 

[RustlessPotato]

People think I'm narrow minded because I don't believe in things that haven't been proven empirically. I know a guy who called my that, because he couldn't convince me homeopathy works. I'm a biomedical sciences student.

 

[JSoup]

A surprising amount of people seem to hear me say "Hello, I am a massage therapist with six years experience" and somehow come to the conclusion that what I'm really saying is "Hello, I'm a doctor with a million years experience, I know everything forever and am impressively rich due to same". S'not so my friend. I can't cure your caner or prescribe you your crazy pills, but I can fix you back so goddamn hard you'll feel good all week.

Capcha: experience the holiday inn

 

[IamQ]

I'm vain because I wear make up.
I have low self esteem because I sleep around.
I'm stupid because I have a Mancunian accent.

Just general bullshit like that.

Your-what-accent? Sorry, I'm Swedish, so I've never heard of that one.

OT: I got nothing.

mancunian accent means she's from Manchester. I'm from Preston, so have a prestonian accent, although I usually just say I sound northern. Just a way British people refer to their regional dialects.

OT I'm a 6ft heavily built, heavily tattooed skinhead with a big beard. I usually get followed by security around shops and sometimes get funny looks. Makes me laugh usually.

By skinhead, I assume you mean shaved head? Or do you go all "This is England" and punch minorities in the face in the name of St.Georges Cross?