My Misconceptions Essay

Just as one of the first things someone learns about you is your name, the first thing someone thinks of you are most often misconceptions or assumptions made on things such as your appearance and the way you speak or act at first. Many of these can be quite harmful but, some are bit more harmless. You wouldn’t necessarily be insulted if someone thought you were a college student from the way you looked even though you were in fact a high school student nor would you really be insulted if someone thought you were cold because you were wearing a scarf or jacket. On the other hand being assumed to be a hooligan or bratty child due to the way you act or dress would be a bit more insulting I would imagine. In this way though the misconceptions …show more content…
Occasionally I do though, and the ones I know of, outside of a few, aren’t all that bad frankly. The first I would address would be the misconception that I am lazy and unorganized due to the state of my room and in middle school the state of my locker. While the locker probably actually was due to being unorganized since then I have become more organized yet I am still seen as this occasionally due to messy room I reside in. The problem is not however that I am unorganized so much as I have too many things and too little places to put them. Now most people when I tell them this simply retort that I could get rid of most of my stuff since a lot of it is simply trinkets and small things like movie tickets and old wristbands that many would call trash. Except to me that isn’t trash. I don’t keep things for no reason at all. Most of the stuff I keep is to keep a memory of it. I have it for the same reason I have over 3,000 photos on my phone. It is because I hate forgetting things. Forgetting things, people, and events bothers me because …show more content…
Which is most definitely one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in a while. Am I not allowed to have a strong opinion about anything? Just because I do have a stubborn personality does not mean every decision is based off of the aforementioned stubbornness. Also even with the opinions that are out of stubbornness how is everyone of those a bad thing? How can every stubborn opinion be blamed as a character flaw? If I did not hold to certain opinions stubbornly I would be a bit of a pushover and extremely easy to manipulate. If anything can’t stubbornness double as both a character flaw and a strength? When people tell me I am stubborn all I can do is agree, because I am! I am very stubborn. Yet, when people’s only argument against my opinion is that I only feel this way out of stubborn I cannot help but, be peeved. That is not a valid argument against me. I am allowed to not want to do things and not like things for reasons outside of being stubborn and people need to realize that. I am stubborn but, that is not all that I