When I keep arguing with someone I have learned to think to myself, "What if the other person is right and you are wrong?"

You could reverse your lizards that way so they run from you? What if they are not talking about you and not looking at you funny and it's you who have "misread" the looks. When it serves my purpose, I invent things to think that "help" me. Since what we think is entirely "our" thinking (like what we dream are our dreams and relate to what's going on in our own lives) then we can "decide" to think whatever we want! So, you can decide the other people are in awe of you and talking about what a great person you are just as easily as you can decide they are whispering about how strange you are. Or, you can think they think you're strange or you can think they aren't thinking about you at all and you just think you/they are strange.