Do You Get Offended Easily?

I tend to just let stuff pass me by or just set them straight that it is not true, but I wouldn't say I get particularly defensive, unless loads of people are coming up to me saying the same things, because then it just gets annoying. A rumour can spread so quickly, yet the truth that it is not true does not spread at all.

No I don't get offended easily. To me I feel it's a waste of my energy and it creates mind stress. I always give the person the benefit of doubt and just shrug it off. After all we are all entitled to our opinions: Freedom is the right of all sentient beings !!

No never..I am pretty cool most of the time..If it touches a nerve,i always ask for an explaination,most of the time i find getting offended does no good really...sometimes things people say or do is not meant the way we take it...

No I don't get offended easily in general but catch me on a bad day or when I'm feeling tired and then maybe I take things more to heart than I usually would. Ellie:D

In general I really dont care what people think of me or what people say about me. Sometimes it aggravates how people can be opinionated about me when they are either on the same lever or worse. For example, if someone calls me ugly they cant be ugly themselves calling other people ugly. Things like that just really erk me. Just for the fact of thinking they are better then someone when they are not. But like I said in general I dont really get offended, just annoyed I guess.

yes, maybe because i'm a sensitive person! :)

That depends on the subject. Some things I couldn't care less about but if someone hit a raw nerve, I will not only become offended but will fight back. Needless to say the offender will sure know.

yes.. actually sometimes i get offended easily it pains me thinking if people would be saying mean thngs to me... i know they can't help it sometimes... but as much as i am hurt by other people... i choose what i say cause i dont want to hurt people with what i said. i dont know why.. but maybe because i feel i am trying my best for people to see and then they will say bad things about me... then that would mean i ahve not done enough.

Some things will offend me. But most of the time I just let things go. My husband gets offended really easy, and I have to calm him down alot. Usually the people who try to offend me don't really know me, and thats why its easy for me to let things go, cause I know who I am.

Usually I do not offend easily except when people who do not even know me attempt to judge me then I do get' upset. as they have no right to judge me not knowing 'me at all. So what if I have some teeth missing, or I am overweight, or I am a senior citizen, none of these 'are a crime. so do not judge me.

I get offended really easily, but i really wouldn't know the reason why is that so.

Though I can get irritated easily, especially by other people's habits (such as nail-biting, sniffing, throat-clearing), I'm at this point in life (aged mid-50s) not at all easily offended. I did get easily offended and leap straight on the defensiveness bandwagon when I was when much younger, but as I've aged I think I've learned to look around and behind anything that's said to me. When I do that, I often find that a remark or whatever directed at me, actually wasn't offensive, and it was me who was just perceiving it that way. I questioned as to why I would immediately leap into defensive mode, and often misinterpret comments or actions from other people. I discovered that the reason why I did it was out of a sense of unsureness of who I was as a person on the one hand, and on the other hand, an unwillingness to admit that I may be wrong about something. Since then, I've become a lot more confident and with that confidence, has come a tolerance of people having different viewpoints to my own and that if someone criticises or disagrees with me, I don't take it as a personal attack. If it truly is a personal attack though, I generally don't fight back as I now feel that life is too short for bad feelings.....first of all I will examine what the person has said, together with examining myself, to see if what they had said is true. If it is, I'll accept it and strive to change it if it's a bad thing.....if it's not true, I'll count to ten and try my hardest to very calmly and in a friendly way, explain to the attacker that I felt hurt and unhappy with what they said, and ask them to expand and justify it. I'd love to think that we could sit and discuss it calmly and rationally on both sides.