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no. im intimidating when you don't know me (which honestly, i don't mind) but annoying as fuck when you do. its not a silly, playful insult. they genuinely hate talking to me. lots of people tell me my voice sounds annoying. i have no idea how to change it.
No. People actually would like me if I was. People have only talked to me because they don't have anyone else. Being awkward doesn't help either so I just avoid others so they don't deal with me because when I do try putting myself out there like people say you should it always goes badly.
I think the person I am inside is impossible to like. I tend to doubt that people who act as if they like me really do and think they must be pitying me, but if they really are being genuine then it's because they like the person they think I am, not the person I actually am. Nobody's ever truly known me which means no one's ever truly liked me.
I guess I'd be inherently biased trying to answer this but I like to think I have likeable traits about myself or perhaps things about myself that if put a little more work into could become likeable traits. But even so I think it'd only apply to a very small subset of people lol
Outside of my position, I quite frankly do not think anyone knows that I am alive.
In non-position life, again I wish and hope that the answer is yes, as I firmly believe in pro-choice in everything in life and we are ALL the same PERIOD.
Heavens, I would say that you are a very kind and loving person, as you are too hard on yourself. At the age of 68, I have seen and had experiences with all types from all over the globe and what struck me about you was the fact that you have humor and under it all, you are a very kind and good soul, I 100% believe this.
Have a great weekend, my good friend.
Walter
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In general people seem to like me. I definitely have traits I need to work on, but I've already put a lot of work into being more agreeable. I used to have that type-A "everything is a joke" "everything is a chance to make fun of someone" type of personality, but I've gotten better at being patient, and - maybe more importantly - focusing humor on myself. I like being used as a sounding board if people need to vent.
A lot of my success is from wearing a mask. I try to always give both sides of an issue a fair shake, but deep down I'm really opinionated, and I know I'll piss people off if I lose my filter. Getting depressed and apathetic will eventually test peoples' patience as well. On days I'm really struggling I focus on isolating so people don't see that side of me. That would be when I'm posting frequently here, haha.
3 years ago when I started my highschool I was the person that almost everybody liked but almost never anybody would talk to me or invite me to any parties. I was one of those people who had never belonged to any group and yet had a very good reputation among my peers.
This year I've been the exactly opposite of likable. And even during my better times some people (in my high school mostly) have made fun of me, alienated me and even bullied me. But in better times people have found me quite good to take everybody into account, having good sense of humour, having good analytical skills and being quite kind and empathetic. Even so kind and gullible to be taken advantage sometimes. I've never been the most attractive/fabulous person more like neutral person with positive attributes.
I don't know, perhaps I am trying to be a good person (or am I just faking it, I dunno) and likable at best but being taken so lightly and being taken advantage have made me hate the way I am kind to people and sour to people who know their worth and being more assertive/capable thus being better people in dire life and death situations and life overall.
Lately I've become so shy, withdrawn, even more passive than before and being unable to communicate that I've lost all my even a small amount of charm I once had. This really sucks!
I know I am likable to most people and strangers. I'm friendly and nice to people, try to be helpful.
But I feel like it's just a mask I put on to hide the shitty person I am deep down within.
To people with certain personality traits: yes. To the majority of people: no. They are indifferent toward me at best, or dislike me at worst; it certainly seems this way.
I'm an INTP too. People like me at first but it's only because I'm pretending to be socially normal. When they find out I don't want to do social things and more than that, don't even understand the point they change their mind. I can only bond over shared interests and activities. It's super painful to pretend to play the social game and then I crash and retreat back to my specific interests.
to extent after I am no longer useful to a person that's all it is I feel like people choose to tolerate me for their own benefit or reasons and in the end disappear
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i dont know. i was told by a previous best friend that I was just unlikeable and that I was lucky he even associated with me, a lot of stuff about how he's the only person who will ever want to deal with me and my shit and that when he left me I would be stuck alone and it would be what I deserve, so part of me thinks no?
but weirdly, my personality hasn't changed from when he said that shit to me but I haven't spoken to him in 2 years and now have so many more friends ? i don't know if he was pulling shit behind my back to make me so alone back when we were friends but now its like all the trouble I had with no one wanting to engage with me is completely gone, friends think I'm funny and introduce me to other friends, even people who don't like me that much warm up to me eventually (I've always been good at annoying people into being my friend though) and it feels like there's at least something that makes people want to talk to me.
i dont know. i was told by a previous best friend that I was just unlikeable and that I was lucky he even associated with me, a lot of stuff about how he's the only person who will ever want to deal with me and my shit and that when he left me I would be stuck alone and it would be what I deserve, so part of me thinks no?
but weirdly, my personality hasn't changed from when he said that shit to me but I haven't spoken to him in 2 years and now have so many more friends ? i don't know if he was pulling shit behind my back to make me so alone back when we were friends but now its like all the trouble I had with no one wanting to engage with me is completely gone, friends think I'm funny and introduce me to other friends, even people who don't like me that much warm up to me eventually (I've always been good at annoying people into being my friend though) and it feels like there's at least something that makes people want to talk to me.
YOU are a wonderfully kind and caring soul and I for one care about you as a good friend on here, as we are ALL in this TOGETHER and we are ALL family on here.
Everyone has their own unique aspects that they bring to the table which makes this such an awesome tapestry of life.
Lots of hugs, love and sunny vibrant blue skies to/for you.
I definitely don't no, but I seem to always get 'positive' feedback of how folk like/love me which I just can't work out/understand. Then it just creates arguments and awkwardness where I try t ask can't explain my point so I smile and nod and don't question out loud any more.
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