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May 02, 2015, 06:03 AM
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Member Since: Jan 2015
Location: Central Europe
Posts: 144
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Here's something I could relate to: link
Here's a quote:
Quote:
Someone: Hey asshole, why did you sit in the handicap seat?
Me: Sorry. I'm not really handicapped, but I twisted my ankle this morning. I sort of needed a seat close to the door.
Someone: Fine. But you don't have to be so ****ing condescending!
Huh? I wasn't feeling condescending and I don't think I had a condescending tone in my voice. (Of course, I could just be horribly mistaken about myself.) But the thing is, I think it's so natural to get upset when someone calls you an asshole, that it seems weird to people when you don't counter with a snark or demand an apology. So it seems much more likely to people that a level-headed response is passive-aggressive than it's simply level-headedness.
I don't know why it doesn't bother me when someone calls me an asshole. It DOES bother me if it's a close friend, but not if it's a stranger. I think it's another symptom of introversion. Since I only bond with really close friends, strangers can't have that much of an effect on me. Which, I know, is bad in a way.
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