I think that at some point, everybody gets misunderstood. Whether it be large or small, it happens. Since I tend not to be the most eloquent person on the face of this Earth oftentimes when I try to say something my vernacular isn't quite right, I make a syntactical error, or somebody misinterprets my tone of voice. This can lead to a big misunderstandings. My biggest issue in terms of being misunderstood is that oftentimes when I say something sarcastically, people tend to not hear the sarcasm in my voice. This can lead to people getting VERY angry over something that was not intended to be a big deal. Those issues can usually be smoothed over with an explanation and an apology though.
But the type of misunderstanding that is harder to deal with are the type not about something you say, but about who you are as a person. I was bullied in high school... I feel in part because I wasn't very good at expressing myself. Especially in middle school, I was what most people would refer to as a social outcast... I had a very small group of 'nerdy' friends and we generally kept to ourselves and tried to avoid contact with our peers when we could. But around 9th or 10th grade we started branching out and actually interacting with the rest of the school. And surprisingly (well not really surprisingly, but it was surprising at the time) most of those jerks who were mean to us before weren't actually that bad. Reaching out to people when there is some sort of misunderstanding can usually be a great first step to getting said misunderstanding solved.
But the type of misunderstanding that is harder to deal with are the type not about something you say, but about who you are as a person. I was bullied in high school... I feel in part because I wasn't very good at expressing myself. Especially in middle school, I was what most people would refer to as a social outcast... I had a very small group of 'nerdy' friends and we generally kept to ourselves and tried to avoid contact with our peers when we could. But around 9th or 10th grade we started branching out and actually interacting with the rest of the school. And surprisingly (well not really surprisingly, but it was surprising at the time) most of those jerks who were mean to us before weren't actually that bad. Reaching out to people when there is some sort of misunderstanding can usually be a great first step to getting said misunderstanding solved.
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