Are you/Do you think that you are misunderstood?

Here you can talk about your true feelings and emotions.......just don't go too far.....

(sorry, I don't quite know how to do pictures yet)

 

For the most part, this whole "misunderstood" thing is a load of garbage. It manifests from hormonal teenage angst, and very few people who complain about being misunderstood actually aren't; they simply twist what people around them say to make it seem like they're being misunderstood, usually as a means of garnering attention.

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I love you for that.

*runs away from Cariad already scared*


But seriously, those poll options suggest that you need an intense form of outlook-on-life check. Life is not out to get you.
Live it.

 

I feel that the people around me jump to conclusions and are too closed-minded to accept any reality except their own. I can safely say this from Kentucky. I tell people that I'm insane and they assume that I will kill/rape them when that isn't what insane is. Every day I am surrounded by idiots who will attest to why they are right through the most irrevocably correct logic and evidence I can disprove them with while they have no further argument than "But I'm right". I have been socially outcasted because of my intelligence and difference and people will either usually make fun of me or be apathetic. I have gone through horrible mental trauma as a kid, but I may copypasta that later seeing as I'm pretty lazy. And I don't really care what your problems are, but I took my problems with the mental strain that comes with them and am now a social hermit of sorts.

 

Life is okay once you get the hang of it.

 

I don't think I'm misunderstood. Sure I'll admit, sometimes I do wish things were easier sometimes, but when things get tough, I don't hate life cuz of it, cuz there are worse things happening to people out in the world. I just deal with it. Besides, if you feel misunderstood, there's no point in trying to make someone understand. If you know who you are and how you feel, then it shouldn't matter.

 

I admit I am misunderstood. But I have a valid medical reason for it. I have ADD/Asperger's Syndrome, making my mind work in a very different fashion than others. I have been told by numerous people that they cannot understand the way my mind works. I have met only one person who has ever understood it, and he was abused as a child and is now in foster care. So, yea, I'm misunderstood, but not in the emo way. In the medical way.

That said, I don't want to be understood. To be understood is to be... *shudder* normal. No thanks. I like being weird.

 

Proceeding with copypasta.

I was born in Maryland. I had a pretty nice life as far as I can remember until we moved. When we moved to where we live now when I was six, I lost all of my previous friends and was never to this day able to adapt to my new surroundings. As if my new social stranding wasn't enough, a year after that I was in a horrible car wreck. A drunk had hit our car going a full 100 miles an hour, causing it to flip three times and finally settle upside down. When I came to, I saw some things that no seven-year old should ever see. The paramedics dragged me out of the mangled car, and my bloodied hands made prints on them as I saw my mother pinned under the car, screaming at them to get me out of here before the gas tank ignited. At the hospital, I was torn away from my mother as we had to go to different wards. I can contribute it to nothing more than the will of God that we both made it out of that accident alive. Over the next year I developed increasingly severe mental issues. I began to hurt the people around me in ways that I could never imagine before. Finally, in sixth grade, I had to see a psychiatrist, and he finally diagnosed me with the medications I needed to get my actions back under my control. The social outcast problem still stood though, however, even when someone began to physically beat me every once in a while my medication would not allow me to react. I just had to sit there and take it every time. As high school started, I began using pot and drinking because I thought that it would help me to "fit in." And everytime I look at myself in the mirror I don't see the same enigmatic kid that lived in Maryland so long ago.

Pretty much this. Rather than understood I would like to be accepted. To understand me is to understand who I am and why I do things. I don't want people to be that far into my ****. And yes, being weird is a plus.

 

See, this is a case where someone can say that they really are misunderstood. The angsty teenagers need to get over themselves.

 

I have learned that hardly any adult will listen to me because they just think of me as a pubescent annoying 14 year-old girl that has PMS.




































But I'm not misunderstood.

 

I am misunderstood and I'm to blame for it. My opinions and choices of action either come out of the blue or seem to contradict eachother, because I have the habit of not filling people in all the time. There's a form of reason behind all that, but I'm not giving anyone a head start by telling them. I'd rather be misunderstood than see-through.

 

"To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A stupid Freshman misunderstands me. Why? He's a b*tch to me and expects me to be nice back.

 

True, I agree with that completely. But a more relevant thought; Is to be misunderstood the same as being great?

 

Have I loved life? Occasionally, when I was able to do things that were extremely exhilarating or I was with great people. In the past few years, I've learned to cherish those moments but in honesty, I'd say I am content with life and it's alright a majority of the time as long as I manage stress right.

Have I hated life? Yep. I've also hated the people who were just as responsible as me for making life miserable. When I say 'just as responsible' I mean that they caused me some serious pain and in return, I hated them for it and dwelt on it too much. Hatred consumed me for a while, and when I stopped hating so much, because I realized I don't have to waste my time on it and I hurt others who didn't deserve it, it freed me up a lot. So, currently, I do not hate life, but instead fight to get out of the bad, deal with it the best I can and move on. I try very hard to not let people tick me off since I am the one in control now as an adult and when I do get angry, I deal with it swiftly, and then I'm done. This frees me up to get to being content again with life.

Wished someone understood me? Sure I have. But I learned to stop being so focused on others understanding me and learned to understand myself and get control of me, which in turn, ironically made me more understood by others. Now people come to me and I should charge money for being some of their psychiatrists. xD No one will completely ever understand someone else. It's the way life is since people cannot get in your head. Anymore, I could care less if other people understand me so well because it keeps life interesting and there are just people out there that make assumptions based on how you look, your age, what things you like, etc. I don't in the end care what they think of me because most of those sorts of people are the kind of people I can live without. Besides, it's kind of fun to be mysterious and throw wrenches in their opinion machines. The look on their faces is priceless. xD

Think life could get no better? Life to me has its ups and downs. After accepting that life always will have some people and incidents in it that are going to tick me off if I let them do that, it has really improved my life. I can now walk away from most people that are always making other peoples' lives harder or tell them off so that I can get passed them and get back to doing other things that are more enjoyable. Also, learning that in life you aren't going to get -everything- you want has made me see that living day to day is far better than expecting things from others and myself too much all the time. I go for what I know I can get and otherwise, there are so many things to do.

In the end, I think anyone could answer the questions in the past form with a yes, because our emotions change based on the circumstances we are facing and also, how much we let ourselves dwell on those things. No one out there has had a perfect life. But in the end, I guess I like to believe that life is what you make of it and what you do with what happens in it.

 

I'm misunderstood. No one gets me. People think they get me but they don't. Even my closest friend doesn't always understand me. Well, she doesn't know that. But if I say something or act someway, she doesn't get what I mean with it. I know that everyone cant know if something bothering me unless I say something about it, but I always try to see if someone has something bothering him/her, and it's very annoying when it feel like no one even tries to understand me.

 

I don't think anyone can truly be understood 100% of the time. To understand someone you would need to know their deepest secrets, their motives in everything they do, and how their brain works. Can you honestly say that you know everything about people close to you? There are things that affect you that you don't share with other people, and people would have to know these things to honestly understand you.

I don't think I'm misunderstood, as in people don't get me. I mean I am socially awkward, I've never really been comfortable with myself (inside and out), but who is? I have people that get me to an extent, and that's really all I need.

 

1. Saying things like "I find joy in pain." makes you sound extremely emo.
2. He's not being all that mean, learn to bite your lip. Try not to be so easily offended.

Not necessarily.

 

Shadox D., if you would calm down for a moment I would like to talk to you on a civilized level.

Now, please understand here that what you say dictates what people think about you. If you say things like "I find joy in pain," then people are going to assume that you find joy in pain and are, therefore, emo. You may not be emo but in order to get people to stop thinking so, simply overusing exclamation marks isn't going to work. Please think about what you say before you say it, it will make things a lot easier for everybody.

 

Everyone is misunderstood. It's not a matter of a little or a lot in this case, it is just a fact that no one can understand anything anyone else is saying or doing because understanding is only an approximation at best. Everyone's brain has a different blueprint and paths of decision making function that are unique to the individual and cannot be comprehended. Socrates said to know right was to do it and he was wrong but that's how he thought of things. That's how he understood the world to be and how many others do not understand it to be. That's misunderstanding, this is constantly happen. That's why we have opinions.

Anything not based entirely in accepted fact is something that can be misunderstood, more than not what people do is based not upon fact but whim or something else so it is up to interpretation and thus misunderstanding. Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea and called it **** when people said the fish was god and various other things about its interpretation. Another misunderstanding. This kind of thing is a constant because simple things like opinions and inferences that we make both consciously and subconsciously are guaranteed to be misunderstood because no one thinks the same.

The perception of normal is also a misunderstanding. No one really fits the normal mold; there are approximations but then again normal is relative because it's decide by what you think and who you talk to not any statistical average. So yeah, everyone is always misunderstood on some level. To be understood completely is to be talking to yourself. So although there are extremes that people take their reactions to with regards to understanding and normality it's not really related to whether there is a misunderstanding or not and it ends up as just another thing I don't understand.