Can you understand a person's characteristics through his/ her writings?
- Rayne123posted 9 years ago
0 As Rayne123 says, up to a point (and I'll add a "maybe, and sometimes" to that).
People need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about some things that others write. I've had people e.mail me to say they thought I was "some academic who had no real-world experience with children". One time, someone else called me (this one is funny) "some computer girl geek" (or something like that). Then, too, I've got a bunch of stuff about bad experiences that happened to me AGES ago, and that - at this point - are as "old" and "non-emoitional-impact" to me as, say, the color of my hair. But, if someone doesn't know that I only write about sad stuff that's all been processed and turned more into "historical facts about my life" (I'm not young), such a person may not know that such a subject is no more emotional, or sad, for me than, say, writing about the weather.
Just as with talking to someone in person, people really, really, need to be be careful not to make jumps from what they out-and-out see/hear to what they imagine must be "behind the scenes" for a person.
So, again, up to a point - and again, maybe and sometimes. The world is far too full of amateur psychologists, drama-minded people, and one or another kind of "judge of everybody" and/or generally overly confident know-it-all's".
If someone can tell from what I've written here that after about forty years of adult life and close to ten on the Internet,, I've had it with people making up stuff in their own head about what I "am" and how I "must think"; ;then, there you have it. That particular assumption would be correct.
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