Have you ever been misunderstood in your life?
What is the feeling of being miss understood?
Did you find ways to be understood?
How does it affect you as a person to be miss understood?
I am always miss understood by the people who never knew me. My be we are all raised by our parents in different views and influences in our country,some are broken family that might as well affect their personality as a person. As I observe most of the people easily judge one another that for me is so alarming.We are being misunderstood in the way we talk, act and inter act with other people.
I remember when I was in high school one of my teacher asked me to be in guidance office I was afraid and confused because when someone is in guidance office it means that you did something wrong. I saw my group friends is already there and the girl who once been bullied and been attacked is also there.So i have an idea what was going on, it was an incident that my friend bullied and hurt other girl and when that time happen I was with my friend I did not bully and hurt the girl I was just with my friend, that's why we are in a guidance office.My teacher miss understood my behavior for accompanying my friend I was confused and felt so bad that time,after that my teacher told me that she think that I was great in school but that situation made a bad impression with them.That time I told my friend that she must change her attitude towards others even though that our teacher misunderstood me for being with her I will always be with her to remind her that friendship is acceptance even if most of the time we misunderstood by each other.
Being miss understood might affect us as a person of what other think about us, for example there is a leader who always curse and said bad thing with others , we all know that a good leader must act and do good deeds with his followers,some disrespect him for doing such acts, but if we only saw the good thing that happen in his leadership we might as well said he is a good leader.
We must accept that being miss understood gave us reason to reflect our selves if we really doing good things and if not we must change so we become a better person.
I think all people are often misunderstood, because our words and actions don't say everything and another person makes interpretations and fills up the lacking information with his own preconceptions and prejudice. These interpretations are almost always wrong, because he judge you by himself. That means, if he said or did as you did, he would have meant this or that, so he think you also meant this or that. But you didn't, because you are not him and your frames of reference are not the same as his.
This happens all the time, but most people are unaware of it. Most cases are not developing to any dramatic situation like the one you describe. Yet I think most people have some similar experiences as the one you relate in the article as well.