My friend feels similar to this.
She has always known that she didn't want children-- she finds them annoying and says that babies are kind of... well; ugly.
haha
She's not a bad person; she just doesn't want to deal with children because she doesn't have the patience for them, I guess?
I have always really liked kids. As a small girl, I imagined I'd have 2 or 3 by the time I am the age I am now... haha XD
I probably will never have any but that's not the point of this post-- the *point* is that I feel REALLY nervous whenever I'm put in charge of/just around someone who cannot communicate with me.
Now, this isn't just other people's babies and children-- it includes some people with disabilities and the elderly... or people who do not speak English; I *always* feel like I am going to do the wrong thing around them and frustrate them or something.
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Once, I worked at a movie theater and there was an elderly man who came in with a stoma (a hole in his throat?) and he could not speak and didn't have one of those robot voice box thingies but he seemed to want something from me, so I kept guessing until he gave me the dirtiest look like he wanted a piano to fall on my head and stormed off-- slamming the doors behind him.
And I felt so terrible about making him upset that I had to go throw up...