What assumptions do people make about you that are wrong?

Well, for me people tend to look at me with all my tattoos and assume I'm some kind of ex-con or really bad guy or just not all that bright which just isn't true (well the first 2 items at least). I get it all the time, people looking at me like I'm some kind of freak without taking any time to actually get to know me.

I tend to be a very quiet person. I have my own work area and sometimes am very focused on my work just to be able to get it done. I can tune everything out and sometimes someone will talk to me and it takes me a couple of seconds to notice. Even though I have worked there a long time, sometimes when I am like this, some think I am mad or upset just because I am not talking or joining in horseplay and because sometimes I don't even realize they are there in my room for a second because I am so focused.

I work in a job, that requires a high school diploma and not much else in the way of education. I lost my job and due to my age, could not get a job in my previous field. Don't get me wrong, I like what I do, it is not financially rewarding, but is in other ways. The people I work with, are shocked when they find out I have an Master's Degree. Many of them are in school, trying to better themselves, I have become the go to person for everyone. They go to me for help in their school work, to correct papers, to teach them things. They assumed at first I was someone who stayed home to raise kids and now am working not that I had a full time job and was close to a comfortable retirement when I got the shaft.

Well I don't think I can recall to many. I've noticed certain types of people who don't think that I can be a good father just because I'm young. (I'm mature inside)

Hello,crazynurse,sometimes people will think i am not nice,especailly if i am having meals with a group of new friends,i do not like to talk at all in these situations,if people do not know me enough,they may think i am an alienated person.In fact I am not,i am a passive person who need time to get know with other people well and start to have good converasation with them.

Well, the assumptions people make of me are actually better than not. They assume I was raised in a very good family, strong parents, Christian loving home, stable, happy, and that I have always been a Christian all my life. Truth is, I was raised in a very abusive home, had 3 step fathers, was in a foster home in my teens, smoked lots of pot, was in juvinile hall, smoked from the time I was 13 until I was 35, married at 19, had a child, gave him to his dad to raise when he was 3, took off to California(from Denver)in my VW Rabbit with no money, no job, no friends, to start my life over. I was a MESS. I got married again to someone 21 years older than me, he had open heart surgery 10 days after the wedding, a year later, we divorced, for a year, we dated, we remarried AGAIN, divorced a year later. I got my son back, and was a single parent of a teenager. Then at 35 . . . . I found the Lord. My entire life turned 180*. My son found the Lord the same time I did. Our lives literally turned RIGHT side up!! (They WERE upside down!!) Most people who meet me and I tell them any fraction of this about me are floored!! They always tell me that they are amazed at how 'together' I am for going through so much. I believe it is all that I went through that made me as together as I am!!! Praise the Lord!!!

Often people make the assumption that I'm 'reserved' when in actuality I'm sometimes shy when first meeting somebody. I was never shy on the job as a home hospice nurse where I'd meet new people every day, but in personal non-professional situations I tend to be on the shy side at first. I'm often more of a listener than a speaker. I can also get up in front of a crowd and sing, or give a speech, and often find that easier than one-on-one conversations. People always tell me I'm exude confidence and expect it in all areas of my life, but they're wrong, lol. Some areas I am still shy in.

That I am arrogrant combined with having a screw loose.

Many people think that i am a control freak or bossy. Some people even think that i control my husbands every move. I ask many questions to clarify so that there is no miscommunication. Why is it wrong to ask many questions? Do people get defensive when i ask questions? - Lyn

People on first impression believe that I am conceited. This is false. I am quite shy and it is not that I think I am so special that my eyes glaze over and I stare off into space :) but because I am afraid of you. hehe. People oftentimes assume that I am completely ignorant. This is due to propaganda that insists that poor people are unintelligent and uninformed. People tend to think I must be a glutton because I am overweight.

Most people assume l am European when they first meet me. Ninety- five percent of the time when l am introduced to a person, not long after they always say, where are you from. When l tell them l come from a long line of many generations of North Americans they tend to look in disbelief. For along time l use to say l was from Greenland because most people don't know anyone from Greenland and it would end there.