jryden, I think we have similarities, from what you've said before.
Cocky is a new way to put it, and I am. My pride and self worth runs deep. Normal people don't get me. The people I have difficulties with are those who can't look beyond their own nose and their comfort zone of mummy & daddy world, and drilled-in salesperson spiel and their basic bullying ways - male and female. Getting their high horse. Telephone is my worst ground. People do their 'business' by hiding behind their glamourous telephone. No body language. no eyes. No sense of humour. No grasp of the real world; paid too much, to read from their boss' factsheet and rules. Newsreader with their autocue. I have to cope with a world ruled by simpletons. I never wanted to develop a superiority attribute - it's all due to annoying minions I have to deal with. I have no other options. My world communication is customer service. This includes recruiters, bound by the simplest method to reject anyone who steps beyond their superperson requirements. I am the world's customer.
We have a solid website to share gripes with, using the same language, not needing a telephone
I have bottled fury with phone people with a vocab of 'hello. uh. I'm polite, articulate, and everything goes OK when meeting for real enthusiasm in person' I was just never prepared for a world barrier of trained cocky psychologists waiting for me to run into their slip-up traps to be eliminated.
I get into a good or bad day, depending who's in the street or on the phone. I always start as a smiling, polite fella. I easily feel mocked.
RazzleCherry, my older brother, who is Father age to me, says I think I'm always right. I may never get past my superiority attribute. I get on perfectly with doctors about my health. I always make them laugh. My pride gives me an experienced balanced perspective of life, although not currently successful. I have to deal with simple people. My roots began when I was 7, in an electronics shop, knowing the products and prices already, I'd either find salespeople idiots and point at things and say 'no - that's wrong - look!' Or on the other side, people in a store or car showroom or banging on about religion in the street, all types of people who want my money, I crumble into my shell, but due to pity for them, and embarrassed that I can't get down to their level. I feel I can help people. But nobody listens to me
Yes. attention-grabbers on the phone or anyone else in real could hold my future in their hands. Police. I have a reaction which is now quite balanced. From just my perspective. Not theirs. I keep learning
Recruiters and employers are work police.
I think there are more factors to everyone's standpoint and hierarchy and structure of authority in work / wages or physical harm to either. For me, it's mostly language and having any common interests with people who control me, and feel superior
My main relationship with my brother is extremely rare. Nobody listens to me. It's a one-way conversation with everyone. I speak. They don't get it. There's no point listening to them. My main weapon, rooted from this website, I think, is now to ask everyone to elaborate on 'xxxx' which I think it's too much for them to understand the question, or claim that I am just rude