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Today me and some of my friends were talking about when we all first met. And it became apparent that I don't make a very good first impression on people. A lot of my friends perceived me as stuck up when they first met me, or just plain old mean. They said once they got to know me they were surprised to see I was actually nice and even fun. I just found that really interesting....I thought I was just being normal me...
So, I was wondering, do you think you make a good first impression on people? Do you think people see you as who you really are when they first meet you? Are you happy with how people perceive you when they first meet you?
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oi. i come across as being really eccentric on the first few tries. nowadays, when i meet new people, i conciously tell myself, "don't weird them out!" i am such a geek.
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Hahaha My co-workers and I were just talking about this last night
According to all of my friends (its unanimous here), the first impression they got of me was that I was loud and obnoxious. Once they had known me for a while they realized that I was....loud and obnoxious.
While most of the time my first impressions of people are pretty close, I have been wrong before. During the first day of junior high in, I was at a school in a new area where I didn't know a single soul. I was sitting next to a skinny guy in Math class and every time the teacher asked a question, he would raise his hand and have the right answer. I thought to myself "What a stuck-up little braniac!" Two hours later he came up to me at lunch, and we have been best friends ever since...over eleven years now.
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I am VERY outgoing and loud, when i first meet people i tend to scare them away. lol But most of the time the come around to see that i am fun to be around-if i do say so myself, and i do- also alot of my friends thought of me as "stuck up" all b/c i would know what my good qulities were and use them to there advanage. my argumentiveness(sp?) always got us into the rated "r" movies. and i can always sweet talk a teacher out of a detention- just last night i had to make Pnut butter cookies for my science teacher to get out of one lol- and every time after my friends would have to hear me brag about what i did, later they found out i wasnt brag thinking i was the best, i was braging that i could help them get into see the movie they wanted , or help them with a good excuse inorder to skip a day in dentention. So sometimes i think that first impressions are good, but u know what they say: You can make a 2nd first impression... or something like that. lol Abby
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Like Beppie, everyone I meet thinks I am at least 23. I just found out that while my nearing 30 lecturer gets asked if she is a student when she is in a taxi on her way home, I get asked if I am a lecturer. Fabulous.
Most people think I look very stuck up and holier than thou. Like "Don't talk to me, you are only fit to kiss my feet". I have tried to be more friendly, smile more etc but it didn't work so after a while, i just gave up.
The way I see it, if someone is going to judge me based on how I look and not even try to get to know me better before making a conslusion, that person isn't really worth my time anyway.
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I don't really care about first impressions because I'm usually a real jerk the first time I meet someone. Either that, or I'm way too nice as usual. So I don't really look for good first impressions because it's not always accurate to their personality. Everyone deserves more than one shot, so...
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