people who try to judge you when they dont really know you?

I feel like I am in this position right now. I have bipolar and everyone is trying to tell me how I should act and feel like they have a degree in physchiatry. They judge me because of my size, I am extremely overweight. What they don't realize even if I loose 100 pounds I still am Linda.

I can't stand it when people do that. I just feel lucky that if anyone has done this to me recently, they have done it behind my back and I haven't known about it. If they do it to my face, it would really probably get me angry. I know very strongly exactly who I am and why I feel the way I feel, because I am an introspective person who sits and thinks about my life and why I feel the way I feel until i come to an understanding. I don't think that it is possilbe for me to know myself much better than I do. SO if someone comes along thinking that they know me when they don't, it would definitely get me really frustrated and definitely upset.

Oh yeah, been there, done that. Got really mad about it one night a while back...and the judging wasn't even toward me personally. Not that it never happens, but the rant I let out in here wasn't about me. It was about my total disgust for busybody, judgemental people. See it here: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/561406.aspx You are soooo NOT alone in that boat.

They make me furious!!!!! I feel I should try do verify who I am... but then I think why bother they are dumb enough to "judge a book by it's cover"

That drives me nuts but I think we all do it to some degree. I think it comes from way back in our history as a way to determine danger. I like to let people dig themselves in and then I point out just how far off they are.

Ignore them as best you can. You are the only one who knows your inner feelings and inner truth. People like to judge others because they do not understand themselves. It makes it easier to sit back and pass judgment without knowing all the facts. How they think of you is their problem. Don't make it yours by buying into their dissaproval of you. You don't have to prove anything to anyone.

man.. i just hate those kind of people...Character is when u know them well and long enough..Thats when u are able to tell the true self...But judging randomly is just stupid...

They drive me CRAZY!!! But, I probably do that to people too sometimes. We all do. Just like on here. We are giving advice to various people about various problems and some of those problems are personal and sometimes you might even think less of that person because of something they wrote...that's the same thing. We don't know the "person" very well. We know ONLY what they WANT us to know ~ Good or Bad. But we still ALL make our assumptions (it's judging them). We are all trying to put ourselves in the situation we are reading to try to give a well thought out, intelligent answer. Or atleast I do. Am I the only one?

Aww wow, I know everyone has something to say about this, but as for me I cut those type of people out of my life. If they want to be like that it is on them, they could have accomplished more in life having me as a friend in my opinion. So their loss.