I am paranoid when it comes to making sure I understand and that people understand me. Part of it is probably my teaching background, part of is from feeling ignored or misunderstood many, many times (my husband among others are tired of me asking if they heard me), and part of it comes from not feeling like I understand much of human nature, what motivates people and such. Most people's thought processes seem very foreign to the way I think much of the time. I don't understand, for example, how people can feel something strongly, and 5 minutes later it doesn't bother them any more. If I feel something strongly, it may come and go with the wind sometimes, but the strong feeling will still be there when I think of whatever it is that caused it again. Whenever I assume something, I'm usually wrong so I try not to do that.