Weirdest Asssumption made about you?

[confessor]

If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard "You're HOW OLD?" I'd well, you get the point.
Most people assume I'm 22-23, I'm only 18. I love feeling like an oldie -.-

I also get pegged for having military experience just because I stand upright and a generally serious demeanor. Works well for scaring people though.

 

[direkiller]

I started out with a Yugi deck. No one at my school actually played by the rules though and it was two years later when I went to tournaments that actually took skill to win. Now... oh jeeze you make me want to bring my deck to college and see just how much a two year old deck will get creamed nowadays.

Someone in 8th grade try to show me yu-gi-oh and explain how complicated it was i laughed and the next day i brought in a few Magic the gathering Decks he just stood there with a confused look on his face

found out a little brother of a buddy of mine picked it up he wiped the floor with me except my cleric deck and my burn deck both of wich have things not aloud in extended tournaments. It seem all of the card games are makeing you buy the new set just to have a chance.

OT: people thought i was gay and im not

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

A lot of people think I'm smart. It's the glasses. Goddam stereotype.
... Yes, I'm admitting that I'm dumb.

I'm sorta like that. People think that I'm a genius and a nerd (academically mind) but otherwise a complete social baboon.

I just realised how that sentence proved them right...

Also everyone assumes I'm American and I have an American accent so I don't really mind. One guy though asked me if I was Scottish. After a brief chuckle I asked him, in my best Scottish accent, how did he think I was Scottish.

 

[Toriver]

It's often assumed I'm athiest.

I'm yet to understand why.

I assumed that, but I've got a perfectly decent reason. You're on this website. Seriously, any talk of being christian on here and you get flamed to shit. I just assumed everybody left.

I'm Christian, and I'm still here...

But anyway, when I was in Spain for a semester in college, I thought I would stick out pretty easily as an American, but many Europeans thought I was German, or at least something other than American, even when I started speaking English to them. Two stories: one time at the gym in Spain, a friend and I were speaking English with each other, and a trainer was showing me how to use a machine (I was new to the whole gym thing) and he was called away, so he turned to the manager and had someone come help the "German guy". Then, when I actually was visiting Germany, some newspaper survey guy started asking me questions in German. When I told him (in English) that I couldn't speak German well enough to answer, he switched to Spanish... and still asked me in Spanish if I was German! It was then I told him I was American and he went away. Now, my heritage is in fact German, and you can see it pretty clearly, but I would have thought Europeans would be able to tell an American pretty clearly... oh, well.

That, and in political terms, many assume that because I studied international relations, that I must lean to the left. It's quite a shock to them when they find out that I'm more center-right, and they always give me this open-jaw expression and the question of "How is it possible that you study IR and are still a conservative?" That's really a problem with diplomatic circles today, actually. When everyone who goes into a field has the same worldview, it can shut out other good ideas and qualified people pretty quickly.

 

[Xeros]

I often wear my long leather trenchcoat when I go out so people always assume I'm all kinds of insane. I often get "Hey, do you blow shit up?", or "how many people have you killed?". I don't find it very annoying though, it makes me feel pretty badass.

 

[Gingerman]

A lot of people think I'm a militant atheist, which isn't really true I'm just a Christian that really wishes that organised religion/religious beliefs would bugger off if they cant act like mature adults (fat chance of that happening). Other people for some reason think I'm trustworthy before they really know me, now I'm not saying I'm not but I'd rather earn someone's trust than just be given it.

Apart from that not much else really.

 

[Evil the White]

that as a girl i couldnt learn yugioh on my own....right

let me set this straight

1)i am a girl
2) yes i play yugioh
3) i started when i got two decks on discount (one yugi, one kiba) when the game first came out. up to this time wed been passing my GB color back and forth at lunch and gone through about $45 in AA batt, so i needed something new to fill our time.

Now im at a big tourney, i just beat this guy.... badly. and he says

"Whoa, you play this good! i need to meet the boyfriend who taught you how. That would be a real challenge"

thankfully someone with him read the death glare i gave the speaker correctly and kept him out of my way for the rest of the day

Ahh, the days when starter decks had little more stragetgy then 'bring out the biggest thing you can find to squash the other person'. We had those banned at our school after a limited edition lava-monster the one with the cages in its hands) went missing.


OT, everyone assumes I'm a nerd (yeah), emo (because I'm mostly seen wearing black), that I play Warhammer, and therefore am a super-ultra-mega nerd (because I did it for a bit a few years ago) and that I'm secretly dating my ex (because we still talk to each other).

 

[Mushroom 118i]

People have thought I'm Jewish, Bulgarian, Italian and most commonly, Posh.

The thing is, I'm a American/German heritage, Christian raised Brit from one of the most deprived boroughs of London... which makes me NONE OF THOSE THINGS.

 

[NLS]

In the middle school yearbook, someone wrote about me "(..)and did you know that he also knows Japanese?."
I do however know Norwegian, Spanish, German and English

 

[Cowabungaa]

a man can take of himself and workout without being gay right?

O gods tell me about it... Folks, I just don't want my face to be covered in pimples, so I use facial wash. That does not equal gay.

Neither does never having a girlfriend before, I just don't want to date the local chavvy populace.

 

[energetic]

Glad i'm not the only one with this but apparently people in my uni class thought i was gay, which was weird cus I maybe made friends with a few girls but I was always checking them out. Seriously i'm not subtle when checking girls out how could they not have noticed.

Oh also people think i'm spanish or italian cus of my olive complexion, just centuries of only english family.

And that i'm either in my mid twenties or still a teenager.

 

[Spitfire175]

People always seem to assume I'm deadly serious about everything for some reason.

I empathize.

Me too.

Some people seem to think of me as a dim witted all American FOX- worshipping patriot and a total bigot because I don't outright declare open hatred for all things western or hype all other cultures beyond reason. Funny since I'm 1) not American 2) not too fond of the USA 3) even less fond of fox bullcrap.

 

[SimuLord]

People have a tendency to assume that I'm friendly and outgoing---I'm neither. I just "fake it 'til you make it" when at school or around people who can potentially offer me a job.

People think I'm racist---I'm not. I just hate when people live down to stereotypes no matter what color they are.

And people think I'm misogynistic and...well, OK, they're right about that one.

 

[Phoenixlight]

It's often assumed I'm athiest.

I'm yet to understand why.

So you're religious then?

 

[189-snakes]

In high school there was a kid who actually accused me of being a vampire. Seriously, the kid would avoid me like the plague cause he thought I was a vampire. Apparently it was my eyes that freaked him out because he told me that I had "vampire eyes". What the hell are vampire eyes!?

 

[ZydrateDealer]

That I have sex with sheep because I'm from Wales

 

[Doomsday11]

That I was Jewish
That I'm from Gibralter
That I speak amazing spanish

 

[EeveeElectro]

I was called emo for the first time in years t'other day. Made me giggle.
People assume I'm constantly eating, ordering large meals when I go out and must eat tons of fatty foods, but I can't stand them.
I suppose you would assume that when you see someone as fat as me, but I eat less than all my skinny friends. T_T

 

[Assassinscreed548]

people assume that since im kinder and more relaxed than others they can just take advantage of me and treat me like shit...

 

[splatterguy734]

When I was on a school trip to edinburgh the room me and my friend were in was ridiculously hot so we were wearing pajama bottoms with no tops one guy walked in and assumed we were gay/attempted to spread a rumour.