Social Perceptions

**Secular Sanity** · Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM

What is the biggest misconception people have about you?

**Syne** · Oct 14, 2016 07:49 PM

That I am younger then I am.

**C C** · (This post was last modified: Oct 14, 2016 09:04 PM by C C.)

That I'm not part of a minority.

Or at least in the kind of quasi-bizarre(?) way that people of 1\8, 1\16, 1\32 verifiable descent can get tribal cards. Or in the way that those of similar percentages in other groups are open to a singled-out classification dispensed by either society or themselves (as if the rest of their ancestry is utterly irrelevant or non-existent).

**Syne** · Oct 14, 2016 09:04 PM

I use to work with a fellow that had Native American benefits who was only like 1/256...and that was actually printed on the ID card. Someone in his family did a lot of research to prove it.

**C C** · Oct 14, 2016 10:32 PM

(Oct 14, 2016 09:04 PM)Syne Wrote: I use to work with a fellow that had Native American benefits who was only like 1/256...and that was actually printed on the ID card. Someone in his family did a lot of research to prove it.

That's an extreme I never imagined being possible in even the whacky world of interracial lopsided-ness and the Institute Of Entitlements For Being Ethnically Ambiguous.

**Secular Sanity** · Oct 15, 2016 03:51 AM

(Oct 14, 2016 07:49 PM)Syne Wrote: That I am younger then I am.

Based on looks or interaction? Wink

I've asked. People think I'm judgmental.

**Syne** · Oct 15, 2016 07:04 AM

LOL. Based on looks.

**Zinjanthropos** · Oct 15, 2016 01:10 PM

(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?

That I don't care.

**Secular Sanity** · Oct 15, 2016 01:29 PM

(Oct 15, 2016 01:10 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?

That I don't care.

Is it something that you say or do that gives them that impression?

**Zinjanthropos** · (This post was last modified: Oct 15, 2016 03:11 PM by Zinjanthropos.)

(Oct 15, 2016 01:29 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:
(Oct 15, 2016 01:10 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Oct 14, 2016 03:56 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: What is the biggest misconception people have about you?

That I don't care.

Is it something that you say or do that gives them that impression?

Not really sure why but I've heard it from other people who in hindsight don't really know me.

For starters.....I am not easily persuaded by large groups nor am I trendy. I tend to deal with issues on a personal basis, direct and blunt. People have no idea what I have done on a charitable level because I don't brag about it. I look before I leap in just about every endeavor. I rationalize things, reason and logic are important to me. One of favorite expressions is 'there's no reward for stupidity'.

Subconsciously I may actually like people thinking things about me that aren't true at all. In my mind that just goes with the territory and I'm OK with it, inner chuckling aside.