Are you understood?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I'm not talking about the classic: "I'm 13-years-old and nooooobody understands meeee — I'm gonna go raid a Hot Topic while listening to Marilyn Manson", because we have all been there.

It's as natural as taking a piss.

I'm talking about people in your life constantly and consistently not understanding you at a base level, whether it is your parents, siblings, teachers or peers.

I was never fully understood by anyone around me... it's like there was an invisible (but gigantic) layer on top of me that prevented them from taking an honest peak inside and see what made me tick.

The disconnect hurt because it resulted on several degrees of separation between myself and those around me — it really is hard to find meaning on things and people you don't understand. And when that's off the table, pretty much nothing remains.

Even my best friend - who had been with me through thick and thin since the very beginning - doesn't quite get me yet, and I don't think she ever will.

But that's honestly fine because, at this point in time, I'm bowling for common ground, not deep understanding — and even then, I'm only willing to go the distance for those whose opinions I actually care about.

Everyone else can operate in an entirely different frequency for all I care.

It's kind of a bitter "peace treaty", but one that's also very necessary.

You?

 

[PrismRed]

I never had the desire to be understood, I just sorta accepted that everyone is different, as long as nobody is forcing their views to anybody, I'm fine with that.

 

[zombie100379]

from a young age i automatically went against everything other people did - never followed trends or got tattoos , or done drugs of any type - i have drank alcohol but haven't in many years ( i was never really into it ) i can count the times i have been drunk on one hand. and these are probably the reasons i have no life.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

That's an interesting question. I suppose some people understand or get me, as it were, maybe not as fully as they think they do. I'm kind of a loner, and I always have been.

I never really, after becoming an adult, relied on anyone but myself. Most people avoided me because I was often seen as the strange weirdo who’s into weird digital art. Even the few friends I have from childhood don't really interact with me because, to them, I’m still that weird loser who was into art and was told it would never amount to anything.

Sure, I’m not rich. I’m not famous. But I make a fairly decent living off what I do. While a lot of them are asking "Would you like fries with that?" I suspect I’m about as understood in my real life as I am here, bits and pieces, but never the full image.
But that's more my own design, as I don't open up to many people Digital or in real life.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Sometimes i don't understand you and sometimes you don't understand me

 

[Retro Doomer]

Ich wes ned ob mich die leid hier verstehe manchmal hob ich dsgefihl das mir a ganz aner sproch babbeln.

I think my Ma understands good enough but not Society at large and I could not care less for various reasons sometimes I got the feelings the normies and I life in completely different realities.

I have completely opposed views to many people and lets be honest in the example of Game preservation very huge issue for us but for the Normies its such a non issue what for us is art is for them kids toys at best and debating them about it won't help either they simply don't nor will they ever care..

unless it becomes muh mainstream where all posers/larpers/tourists however you want to call them move in like locus.

We life in our world and they life in theirs we don't understand each other on many terms and neither do I care.

 

[Lod 10]

During my pre-teen years, I was watching an anime called Nanatsu no Taizai, and I became very excited about my favorite character. I tried to present it to my family, explaining it in the way I understood it, which was a silly way of doing things, and I couldn't watch it.Sometimes it's hard being an otaku because I come from a Christian family.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Sometimes i don't understand you and sometimes you don't understand me

Da hast du so was von recht manchmal kommt es einen so vor als wen mir eine ganz andere Sprache sprechen würden,ziemlich verrückt.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Da hast du so was von recht manchmal kommt es einen so vor als wen mir eine ganz andere Sprache sprechen würden,ziemlich verrückt.

Si, es sorprendente amigo mio.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Da hast du so was von recht manchmal kommt es einen so vor als wen mir eine ganz andere Sprache sprechen würden,ziemlich verrückt.

Weird gibberish.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Weird gibberish.

Si, zarpadisimo.
Lastima que sepas español.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Si, es sorprendente amigo mio.

No importa el idioma, los juegos retro nos unen a todos; es nuestro lenguaje universal.

 

[shaggi shaggi]

Even in primary school, no one understood me, not even trying to do so. I accepted that i look at the world in different way than all my peers. At the end of primary school, I wasn't try to show my true self to anyone and from high school on, I feel like living in some sphere that couldn't allow me to see the world that other see. Now i don't care if it's anybody who try to understand me. I'm not sad or angry, but it feels a bit lonely. I can't seek for people anymore.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Si, zarpadisimo.
Lastima que sepas español.

Como es una "lástima"?

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

No importa el idioma, los juegos retro nos unen a todos; es nuestro lenguaje universal.

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Como es una "lástima"?

Por que el chiste pierde sentido xd

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I see no point in dropping facades and allow anyone to see my true self, people won't get my wavelength anyway, and I have no desire to be understood.

I am a very high functioning misanthrope, comes with the territory.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

They can't discover you that's why. you're like outer space or a life that wasn't made by god.

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

Most part of my ex classmates never understood me but I didn't really care about it, they never tried to talk with me or even when I talked to they just ignored me

 

[mrrgrrgrr]

People like me well enough, but when push comes to shove none of them ever understand me on a fundamental level. I surround myself with good company, yet my existence is a lonely one.