people thinkig your mad when your not

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does anyone else have this problem?
it happens to me all the time
just today I had 3 different people ask me what I was mad about

quite frequently, yes

I hope you're not mad at this

Seriously: People are always trying to interpret intentions in online writing, since one cannot see others' faces. I believe there are times that when one uses strong, opinionated language, it might be interpreted as meaning that he/she is angry--when, in fact, the person merely has a strong opinion.

It's happened to me a few times; more often, my facial expression/body language/whatever people think they are reading are thought to represent sadness/depression.

I am stark raving bonkers, people have every right to think I am mad.

On a serious note when I am mad people WILL know about it. People are often wrongly concerned about my mental state though, thinking I am down and depressed when I really am not.

Last edited by DukeJanTheGrey on 05 Jun 2014, 5:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

People look at me in real life and say that I look mad or upset all the time when I'm not. There's a girl that asks me if I'm okay every time she sees me.

Yes. I just try and watch my tone. People can't seem to distinguish when I am frustrated, irritated, or mad and we are the ones who are supposed to have this problem.

Luckily no one ever asks me anymore what is wrong or to smile.

yup. my calm face looks angry to strangers.

I've been told that I walk angry, and I look angry when I eat.

But when I'm actually mad about something, people don't take me seriously.

wow, what does an angry walk look like, I wonder?

hell yeah,but a different kind of mad AKA crazy,when have ran away from care homes police have always said am seriously drunk, am mentaly ill or am on class A drugs-until they realised was wearing a nappy,was using makaton sign language and they saw the APB put out.
am visibly disabled/different so dont get that problem with the general public but cops must deal with a lot of similar behaviors from many different causes.

I don't know...? maybe walking too fast or putting my feet down hard or something. It was a friend in high school who told me that.

In person I get that as well as "whats wrong" when there is no problem.

This is the bane of my existence!

Yeah, it goes like this;

'No, I am not mad...if I were mad, I would tell you...geez, oversensitive much?'

A lot of people cannot tell the difference between 'serious' and 'angry'....I mean that's okay too, because we cannot tell the difference between truth and sarcasm...but we have the advantage there.

However, it does lead to other people going off at me for absolutely no reason (like my brother does), which leads me to ask 'what the hell did I do wrong now?'

Apparently, how you say something means a lot more than what you actually say....and I have never been able to figure that one out.

Suffice to say, I don't think scientists will ever come close to be able to create and form of 'artificial intelligence' that can mimic human thought processes...it would take an Aspie to program it. :p

So I pull my 'angry face' and I tell people...'look at this and remember it....this is my 'angry face', and unless my face looks like this, I am NOT angry!' *pulls angry face. lol

Last edited by SoMissunderstood on 05 Jun 2014, 9:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, and the worst thing is, when they do, it makes me mad.

Are you mad?

Now I am!

This happened a lot when I was in my teens. People would ask me what's wrong when I felt fine. I said "Nothing", but they'd keep asking if there was something wrong, to the point that it annoyed me enough that I started actually getting angry.