People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.
I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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