jimi, your post reminds me of a man I know. He's a good person at heart, craves friendship, but for some reason he often scares people so they react to him in a negative way. I can never exactly figure out what the problem is. The man is eccentric, but not malicious in any way...he can be trusted. I've kind of stopped hanging around with the guy, though, because wherever we'd go together people would react badly to him...kick him out (for absolutely no reason other than he was being himself), pick arguments with him, question his motives, and even go so far as to call the cops on him because they were "afraid".

I think our world is extremely paranoid these days...so sure that "somebody is out to get me"...people tend to over-react.