A lot of people slowly develop their own ways of self protecting shakesphere. People don't like being judged and unfortunately there is a lot of judging that takes place in society over all. If you expect others to be empathetic to you if you reveal yourself emotionally, it's important to realize that there will be individuals who simply can't, but instead will utter very basic "just don't let" comments or may avoid you altogether because they really don't want to deal with your emotions. Often that is what these individuals were unknowingly taught to do by their own parents. People may actually glass over, not because they don't care about you, but because they don't know "how" to care and that requires one getting in touch with their own emotions.

Truth is most people are raised with "don't cry, don't be angry, be strong, stop acting X or Y". People really don't know how to allow their child to cry and sit with whatever is causing them to cry, acknowledging that emotion with them and taking the time to slowly work through whatever it may be that the child is crying or angry about. So, often what can happen is a person who sees someone crying and hunches their shoulders and whispers in a cold way, "what's that person's problem", but not in a genuine question, but instead as if that individual is "unworthy and strange".

One day my husband said to me that I am different and he has not seen others do what I do, he said "You see someone crying and you stop what you are doing and go and talk to them, and then you make an effort to help them. OE, people don't do that". He is right, truth is a lot of people simply choose to think, "that is someone else's problem not mine" and choose to avoid. Well, that is why so many learn to wear a kind of mask shakesphere, they develop that because they genuinely think it is wrong to "need" emotional support. It tends to go pretty deep in their subconscious mind too, so it's not necessarily a conscious choice.

You wonder what others are really feeling and thinking, however, others have slowly learned how to guard that part of themselves simply because it's a big risk "trusting" others with our emotional challenges.