Do you find people predictable?

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Can you "foresee" how people might react on your appearance or what you say/write?
I always feel like starting from "point zero" when it comes to this - my mind is really blank, but this is not a nice feeling. I can approximately predict a child being happy getting a new toy, but especially with "grown-ups" (for me this is like 13+, I know it is not logical, but for me it is this way) I have no orientation anymore.
This also applies to "close" people like family or partner.
It is fatiguing somehow, always being "blank" about it and leading to anxiety.
It is like I cannot transfer the information to a next situation of meeting a person.
I don't know if it is clear how I explain it.
Can anyone relate?

God no.

It's easy to predict their initial reply. I avoid talking to some types people because I know they're intolerant.
On the internet, I generally assume people to question everything I say, call me a troll and call me a bigot.

When I've known people I've accidentally stumbled into for a while, it often surprises me how different they are.
Some people who looked like pure evil became good friends, and some people who seemed friendly and tolerant were pure evil.
Same with intellect - some people who looked sophisticated on first sight ended up thinking Stalin was a football player, and some people who looked, in facial disorder, mentally ret*d were actually geniuses. Getting to know a person is usually very surprising for me.

I always think I "know" what people will do, which is normally that they will react aggressively towards me, but my prediction is almost always wrong.

I am very difficult to predict what other people with think, or how they will respond. This is true in response to words I speak or actions I do, or in response to what other people say or do.

Depends on the situation:
Work
School
Home
Social Occasion

I can tell usually who to avoid. Maybe too pessimistic at work? Maybe too paranoid. I can usually think of various reactions so whatever happens is not really a surprise.

I can guess, and my guess is usually right

I often think I know, but usually I'm wrong.

I can guess very basic reactions and conversations but anything beyond that is beyond me. That is the reason why I'm scarred to talk to people I like.

It depends. If I know a person then I can easily predict the behavior but in general I have no idea how people work. I just find them strange, emotional, irrational, weird and so on.

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I have a very hard time predicting how people might act and it's caused me a lot of grief on certain occasions.

I can only predict people when I've enough time to observe their habits.