What Suzie said is how I think we would all love to be, just wish it was that easy. Me I fluctuate between caring and not caring. Most of my life I have had an overiding need to be liked and yet have always been an outsider (put both of these things down to being adopted -very happily, but it brings it's own problems). As I got older I realised I was an outsider for good reasons because I actually had nothing in common with those I had been trying to impress. I'm fairly eccentric and speak my mind. It's hard going on to descrieb myslef as it sounds arrogant and I don't mean it to, so I'm just repeating what a friend said recently when I asked the same question and asked her to be straight with me. Her opinion was that as I was tall, slim, didn't look my age and dressed well I would annoy some women (school mainly). When she first came to my house she said she was intimidated by teh books on teh shelves and worried how I woudl see her as she had only 1 O'level. Then reminded herself that I had never revealed this about myself, so it was just her opinion. My OH saw an aloof woman when he first saw me in a staff meeting. This comes from being 6ft 1" so pretty impossible to hide and blend in even when you're feeling a bit shy - so teh face probably goes into aloof mood with no choice. We all have barriers of some sort.
Think my general point is that however much I care I can't change me or the bits about my life that others take to make up their opinions of me. I just have to accept it and hope that those I call my friends have a good opinion of me. On the whole I know they do and sometimes I think they see a better person than I do. However, don't know how I come across on here, couldn't guess at that one.
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