~Weird~ Ever been misunderstood?-Share your experience

[AyeshaPS]

AssalamAlaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu akhis and ukthis!
The title of this thread was meant to be ever been *misjudged but then I realized only Allah SWT has the right to judge us, we as humans, aren't!
Anyway, I want you all to share one instance when you have been misunderstood. Maybe it helps relieve my anger about something that happened with me!
JazakAllahu Khairan!


My experience:
There's a lady who's a sort of a family friend who thinks I'm rude because I didn't sit and talk with her for a very long time and merely offered Salam. Now the thing is, I don't talk alot, not anymore...
People need to understand what somebody's going through. I'm not angry or anything, just a little frustrated at people's rudeness. She said I'm nothing like my mother who was really nice and hence meant I'm not nice. Does she even realize what I've had to go through?
No hard feelings or anything though....

Anyway, your turn!

 

[uniqueskates]

Walaikumassalaam wa re wa barakatuhu.

My sister says "you have become a grandpa" just because I have stopped listening to music and ask her to shut her music player when am around. I will be like "Yeah, Whatever!"

Many more are there. Expecting others to share too.

Peace.

 

[Hajjerr]

Wa aleikum salam

I think misunderstandings happen since the beginning of the world and will always happen between people..
Like you dear sister Ayesha, because i dont like the ''courtesy chit-chats'', fake smiles or idle talk, i am judged as rude or arrogant, what can we do
Humans are really great at judging others, but i have learned that mostly the ones that keep so much love for appearances are the ones that hide messy things under the carpet.
And Allah knows best, keep positive inshAllah.

 

[Mahzala]

Misunderstandings, oh yes. But if, and when we can, there is no harm in defending ourselves. Some just stay with you more than others huh?

A few years back, I went to see a doctor in a specialist ward. So, formality has it that they ask you all these questions. When it came to my marital status, I told her I wasn't married. And she immediately assumed that I was divorced, and a single mother, going through a rough time getting along. She was being so annoyingly sympathetic, making reference to other women from the Middle East who were married young and then divorced. She was just about to go into the arranged marriage talk, when she realised she was going off topic. And the bit that stayed with me, I didn't even stop her - not once to say, look woman, I am neither married, nor divorced, nor do I have fatherless children ... I am all good!