People Telling You What You Feel

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Have you had a lot of people telling you that you feel things you don't feel? Especially in therapy.

I have noticed that people tend to assume a huge amount of emotional motivation behind the things people do and say and sometimes disbelieve me when I say what I really feel.

I'm kinda confused to this question but i'll try and put my thoughts on what I think your talking about.
I guess it happens to me, i try to tell the story that got me the feelings and someone else says I don't feel that way. It's kind of like there trying to correct me. Sometimes I just want to tell them "You're not helping." It makes me want to just break down and cry sometimes...

I can see how that would be frustrating in therapy, almost like they don't see who you really are, just who they assume you are based on their past experience.

I have had that happen with family, and I remind myself they are likely telling their story more than mine.

I think you are on the right track, knowing how you feel and knowing when someone else is wrong about your feelings, some people can't even identify their feelings in the first place. When I saw a therapist, she would suggest how I was feeling because I couldn't always put words to it, and she helped me shed some light, so maybe that is 'what they do' when someone is needing help?

A therapist kept telling me the reason I have trouble approaching people is because I have low self esteem and that I'm worried about saying something dumb, which is not the case. She kept giving me these useless self esteem assignments to do. I kept telling her that I just can't and don't know what to say or how to join in and she kept insisting it was a self esteem issue. I stopped seeing her. She was one of those therapist who always asks "how do you feel about that" and tells me to "list good qualities about yourself," and it's like, I don't know damn it!

My dad always thinks I'm angry when I'm not and insists he can tell when I'm angry, which actually does make me angry.

yeah and they use condescending terminology. they have the nerve to tell me "you got mad" "upset" or "pissed off".

"annoyed" or "angry" sounds better.

even their choice of words. shows. betrays. their prejudice. bias. they truly believe they are morally superior to me, and, as a result, are morally justified at doing whatever they want. while i have to passive aggressively tolerate anything they do.

precious lil "friends".

sometimes i feel like before the next social interaction, have to write a written contract about what each party will or will not do. and otherwise. then what.

but of course i ain't psychic. or telepathic. there are always numerous things anyone could easily do, that i do not know the response for.

I don't become annoyed, easily, but, if someone tells me how I feel, or, what I am experiencing, or anything else about myself, that only I can know, it really bothers me. I mean, to the point where I will lose all interest in ever communicating with that person, again.

I've been in the situation where people assume one size fits all, or one style fits all, so to speak. They assume that since most people feel a certain way in a certain situation you must too. They are playing a game of probability and guessing, rather than sussing you out as an individual. Treating you like an individual would have been the right thing to do.

I am surrounded by people like that^, these day, at one of my jobs. I cannot tell if they are simply, oblivious, or, if they have a superiority complex of sorts.