[Autumnleaf]

Where do most normal people get it wrong based on your experience?

[Kearley65]

Can you elaborate on the question because I do not know how to answer? Are you asking about me, life, or what? Define it, please.

[taymaxi]

That I can mind-read and know when they're going to change lanes when driving, thus making the use of a turn signal unnecessary.

Kidding. Well, I'm not, but I don't think that's what you're looking for with this question. Second on what Kearley said, what do you mean exactly?

[Zsych]

That they have more maturity than a five year old
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[Autumnleaf]

	Originally Posted by Kearley65 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Can you elaborate on the question because I do not know how to answer? Are you asking about me, life, or what? Define it, please.

Everything. You define it based on what you know. If we all share then we'll know more than when we started.

[Kearley65]

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	Everything. You define it based on what you know. If we all share then we'll know more than when we started.

Okay, I think I may like this. The freedom to wonder to the dark side of the moon.

I have noticed that most people are caught up in this world where materialistic goods are used as a device to show that they are interesting. They think that by having all these goods, they are showing how smart and intelligent they are to others. Well your not, you just wasted your money. Why do you not go read or do something instead of buying something to make you look smart when you are not smart at all.

I have also noticed that society in general treats random strangers in a rude manner and not very nice. Then the holidays come around and everyone says that we need to be nice to one other because it is the holidays. No Bitch! How bout you treat people with kindness year round. One reason that I am not the most cheerful people come holiday season.

I will finish by the biggest misconception others have about me. They think that I am shy, I am not shy at all. Maybe if you talked about something other than those Jersey Shore idiots and made the conversation more insightful about life I would join in. I do not use small talk to converse with others. So, do not think that I am shy because I am not into small talk, I just find you boring and I would rather talk to myself in my head than talk with you people because the conversation is better.

[GSOgymrat]

	Originally Posted by Autumnleaf To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Where do most normal people get it wrong based on your experience?

"It can't happen to me."

[The Dan Keizer]

About me: They seem to think I smoke weed all day.

About life: They think the lives we all live where we work all day and have the product of our labor taken by corporations and the state and such is the normal human condition.

[taymaxi]

Originally Posted by Kearley65 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I will finish by the biggest misconception others have about me. They think that I am shy, I am not shy at all. Maybe if you talked about something other than those Jersey Shore idiots and made the conversation more insightful about life I would join in. I do not use small talk to converse with others. So, do not think that I am shy because I am not into small talk, I just find you boring and I would rather talk to myself in my head than talk with you people because the conversation is better.

I was going to say this myself. Admittedly, sometimes I am just shy depending on the other people in question, but a lot of the time I just have absolutely no desire to waste my time on useless chatter. If there's no point to the conversation in either a practical or deeper sense, then I don't see why I'd waste my time on it. This didn't go over well at all when I was younger and I was regarded as chronically shy throughout high school, but now that I'm older people don't seem to notice or care as much.

Other misconceptions:
-that the higher the number of pictures of you/friends you have on Facebook, the better your life must be
-that your actions as an individual are too small and insignificant to play a role in the overall way things are or how the future will be
-the the world will implode if you lose your smartphone/internet
-that people actually notice or care about half the things you think they do (most people are actually ridiculously unobservant)
-that the tomatoes at Subway might ever actually taste good. Every time, you ask for them on your sandwich, thinking they might this time be good, but alas! Blah-flavored mush.

[Booko]

That political views only come in flavors of conservative and liberal.

And all religions are suspiciously just like a subset of one religion. Set theory, anyone?

[The Dan Keizer]

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[Kearley65]

Originally Posted by taymaxi To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I was going to say this myself. Admittedly, sometimes I am just shy depending on the other people in question, but a lot of the time I just have absolutely no desire to waste my time on useless chatter. If there's no point to the conversation in either a practical or deeper sense, then I don't see why I'd waste my time on it. This didn't go over well at all when I was younger and I was regarded as chronically shy throughout high school, but now that I'm older people don't seem to notice or care as much. Other misconceptions: -that the higher the number of pictures of you/friends you have on Facebook, the better your life must be -that your actions as an individual are too small and insignificant to play a role in the overall way things are or how the future will be -the the world will implode if you lose your smartphone/internet -that people actually notice or care about half the things you think they do (most people are actually ridiculously unobservant) -that the tomatoes at Subway might ever actually taste good. Every time, you ask for them on your sandwich, thinking they might this time be good, but alas! Blah-flavored mush.

Growing up in Ag, I realized that some produce is not good because it must be picked green to reach the store before spoilage. They are just blasted with ethylene gas, a natural gas given off by produce just that cold storage facilities can capture it and reuse the gas, to make the produce change color. And you live in the Midwest. Move to California where I live and you will realize what produce is suppose to taste like.

Also that is a big reason why I deleted my Facebook account, got tired of people's useless post about shit I never care about. I do not care that you just came back from the store or that your just took a shower. We do not need ever detail about your life person.

And I refuse to have a smart phone because I choose to be different.

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That was a great link and people need to understand us better. Needs to be on the front page of every newspaper but who reads a newspaper anymore besides me.

[Izurin]

That anyone with a mental disorder is either durrrr-hurrrr retarded, or fuck-you-im-gonna-kill-you psycho. Also that if you're intelligent, it means you're knowledgeable. I recall one of the worlds most intelligent people thought Venus was a star. Don't get me started on how many times people said "Whats the physics of when I do this" when I told them my IQ.

[darniem]

In general:

- If I work hard and earn lots of money, I'll be happy!
- If everyone did what the wanted, the world would be better (or in a state of anarchy).

I'm from the American South, so common misconceptions I encounter (living outside the South):

- Everyone's stupid in the South.
- Everyone's racist/bigoted/republican/white in the South
- Everyone lives on a farm in the South
- Your ancestors fought in the Civil War so they must have had slaves (no, the Yanks just kicked them off their small farm and left them destitute. USA! USA!)

Also doing grad studies at a monastery...so...

- I bet all those monks do is pray all day
- Those monks can't talk, can they?
- Don't the monks whip themselves? (LMAO)
- I bet you're bored all the time
- Don't you feel like a second class citizen, you know, as a woman?

[Rovin]

	Originally Posted by Autumnleaf To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Where do most normal people get it wrong based on your experience?

"Normal People" mostly get it wrong in that they think that anything that isn't their majority is trying really hard and wants to be in their majority. "Difference" isn't defined as being merely an equivalent alternate, but "different" as in some way substandard because it doesn't equivalate to commonality. This is, of course, an incredibly broad stereotype that doesn't hold up to "Norms" as a whole as there're plenty of accepting and understanding people.

[Oros Ull]

That anything within human perception is actually the way it appears.