Hello Ladies of this wonderful community, this week’s contest question by 
1️⃣ What's the one thing people always misunderstand about you?
Like someone said we cannot control how people see or perceive us as you cannot know a person 100%. You are only privileged to see whatever side that person shows you.
I am a bit of a germaphobe, I'd say 60% germaphobe. I get easily irritated by germs. It's so hard to keep up over here with a lot of people who see staying clean and keeping their environment clean as a daunting task. It’s so hard to function effectively in public places where every surface looks dirty to me, where I can literally see these germs with my “Microscopic eyes” on their way to eat me up.
I tend to be very picky as a result of this, I don't eat certain things, I don't touch certain things, etc So basically there are some kinds of things regular people do that I will never think of doing. Due to this nature of mine, a lot of people perceive me as a girl who "FORMS" in standard English it means someone who is full of his or herself. They think I pretend not to do certain things because I just want to create a show or do not want to stoop to their level which automatically makes me a proud person, while my refusal is borne out of my irritation for a lot of things. I have tried to explain myself to a lot of people but they do not get it.
A few months back I had a conversation with a friend of mine who admitted that she didn't like the way I was always acting like a clean freak but later she got to understand that I do not do it to spite anyone that it was just my nature and honestly I was glad that she opened up to me.
Putting the dots together I recalled a particular day where she gave me a fruit but I declined and didn’t state my reason for declining, but she figured it was because I had no means of properly washing the fruit. In her words; “you just make us look dirty”. Making people feel that way is never my intention as I try to hide the fact that I am a bit of a germaphobe but these things just sort of show without you even knowing.
I went to a family friend’s house one time and while helping her to prepare dinner she looked at me sarcastically and said “You do too much”. This statement was made because while helping her cook I kept on washing my hands and God knows how many times I did it before she noticed and said what she said, I tried to explain to her that I get irked when my hands are dirty but just like every other person my reason was not valid and I just had to let it slide.
My little bottle of sanitizer follows me everywhere as it’s super helpful, when I have no access to water and soap to wash my hand I just stick to it.
I am tired of people making me feel like I’m “doing too much”. I don’t shove my ideas down people’s throats so I don’t understand why they’d want me to act in a certain way that makes me uncomfortable in a bid to please them.
In all of these, I am super grateful to some of my friends who get me and don’t make a fuss out of the whole germaphobic thingy, it’s really nice to see people who get you without you even saying a word.
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