[quote=Lucian]
Do you ever feel like you come off in a way that you don't intend?
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People often peg me for being aloof/cold, which I'm really not once you get to know me. (Granted, I really only truly have opened myself up to a small handful of people.) I've been told that I'm intimidating, too, which I just find funny. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I generally won't initiate conversation -- I'm quite comfortable with silence, so I think people mistake me for not talking as something to personally do with them. (Like I don't want to talk to them or something.) But, that's not the case at all... I just don't find silence to be as awkward as most other people, so I don't generally go out of my way to indulge in 'small talk', which some people definitely find unnerving/intimidating. (Also, my dry sense of humor generally doesn't help either... People aren't always sure when I'm kidding or when I'm being srs.)

I've also been told that I come off as arrogant, which is true and not true. I tend to tell things as they are, which people don't always know how to take. For instance, when it comes to my artwork, I know what level I'm at (intermediate) and I don't mince words, but I clearly know when my own work is better (or worse) than someone else's that I'm being compared to and I'll often be very blunt about it. ("Yes, I am better than them. No, I'm not better than them." etc.) I'm very self-sure which, while I can understand some people may interpret as being arrogant, I look at it as being more of a literalist/realist. If I say something, it's usually the exact and literal truth as I see it. (And I think that bluntness often feeds into the 'cold/aloof' issue as well.)