It’s so hard to witness someone being made fun of, simply because they’re misunderstood. I get flustered and bite my lip, because trying to defend them never does a thing. I also get either angry or sad, depending on whether or not I know the person who’s doing the mocking. In my experience, someone who’s so quick to come to a conclusion will refuse to see things another way. They have enough preconceived notions to keep themselves ignorant and secure.
Perhaps I’m like this because I can relate to what it’s like to be misunderstood. As an experiment in one of my English classes, I wrote an extremely graphic story about a necrophiliac doctor who ends up getting raped up the ass, and presented it. I wanted to show that the intentions of an artist are irrelevant if he or she is misunderstood, because others will continue to carelessly judge them. The more oddly my classmates stared at me while I was presenting, without trying to grasp what I was trying to do, the more I felt like my point was proved.
The thing is, someone is usually misunderstood because they don’t explain themselves well. A person can be extremely provocative, controversial, or complex, but as long as others see what they’re trying to get across then everything is fine. Of course, it’s much easier said than done, and someone is most often misunderstood because their ideas are harder to grasp. In addition to this, I find that the eccentricity related to a person with such ideas clouds their perceptions as to what they believe others are capable of comprehending.
Sometimes, I wish the world could see what I see.