Misconceptions

Someone told me the other day they were glad they got to see who I really was. Generally I get laughs when people tell me things like this. This one was merely confusing. Mostly people say stuff like that when they want to imply they figured out I wasn't going to pretend to be nice to them if I hate them.

Yet I don't appreciate when someone tells me that who I really am is an excessively happy person and I'm just hiding it for laughs. So every time I got mad at them for annoying me I can imagine what I wanted to say was something like "Thanks for the distraction, I wasn't trying to work on that assignment due tomorrow". I'm sure even if I said it in a completely sarcastic tone they'd think I was serious.

Is it really that hard to believe that perhaps I'm just an arsehole and enjoy it. That I don't want to run around like I'm on crack constantly. I don't feel that seeing something once means that is necessarily the way things are. People have this need to see what they want, without thinking things through. Nothing is different from how they perceive.

"You put up walls and paint them all a shade of gray"