I've been told I can be intimidating, because I look people up and down when I first meet them. I don't do it to be a bitch, I do it to get a sense of what the other person is like. You can tell a lot by how a person stands and shakes your hand and starts a conversation. Unfortunately, I forget how I appear to others, because I'm so busy doing my own rundown, so I endup being the one who gives off a bad first-impression.
Though I've never been told I was hard to approach, I have heard time and time again how difficult it is to get through to me. I've never really had problems with people approaching me, though I usually find it difficult to approach others, for some reason I always need an excuse to do so. When approached by someone, I usually try to maintain a distance and independence. Only in rare occassions do I allow people to see the real me, always afraid to be not good enough, weird and unlikeable. Only when I know I will be accepted for who I am do I dare to show my true colours.
When I was a teen, my a.dad always told me, "Take that hard-look off your face!"
... WHAT "hard-look"? It was my natural face... one without a smile, because I would rarely smile. (What was there to smile about?)
I tend to keep to myself, so I suppose my face looks far more serious than what 's really brewing in my sick and twisted freaky-weird mind. In most social-situations, people would actually come-up and tell me when they first saw me, I appeared to be the biggest stuck-up bitch they ever saw before.
Thanks.
That comment would follow with, "... but you're actually the nicest and funniest person I've ever known".
Uh, thanks... that's what makes and keeps me Special; two-sides of the same coin.
I don't know how to be different; I don't know how to fake pleasantries or smile for no apparent reason. I'm truthful, and it will always show on my face. Some accept that more than others, and at this point, I refuse to change. I will either grow like a fungus in a person's life, or be quickly removed. I let the Other Person choose.
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I've been told I can be
I've been told I can be intimidating, because I look people up and down when I first meet them. I don't do it to be a bitch, I do it to get a sense of what the other person is like. You can tell a lot by how a person stands and shakes your hand and starts a conversation. Unfortunately, I forget how I appear to others, because I'm so busy doing my own rundown, so I endup being the one who gives off a bad first-impression.
I think I do that
I think I do that verbally
Well I do if my initial interest is sufficiently aroused, if I can get past the eye-contact stage without appearing so aloof that they give up on me
Robin
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behind the armour
Though I've never been told I was hard to approach, I have heard time and time again how difficult it is to get through to me. I've never really had problems with people approaching me, though I usually find it difficult to approach others, for some reason I always need an excuse to do so. When approached by someone, I usually try to maintain a distance and independence. Only in rare occassions do I allow people to see the real me, always afraid to be not good enough, weird and unlikeable. Only when I know I will be accepted for who I am do I dare to show my true colours.
"What a BITCH!"
When I was a teen, my a.dad always told me, "Take that hard-look off your face!"
I tend to keep to myself, so I suppose my face looks far more serious than what 's really brewing in my sick and twisted freaky-weird mind. In most social-situations, people would actually come-up and tell me when they first saw me, I appeared to be the biggest stuck-up bitch they ever saw before.
Thanks.
That comment would follow with, "... but you're actually the nicest and funniest person I've ever known".
Uh, thanks... that's what makes and keeps me Special; two-sides of the same coin.
I don't know how to be different; I don't know how to fake pleasantries or smile for no apparent reason. I'm truthful, and it will always show on my face. Some accept that more than others, and at this point, I refuse to change. I will either grow like a fungus in a person's life, or be quickly removed. I let the Other Person choose.