Why is it that some people can't read body language or facial expressions? I don't believe that it's a case of not caring what other people think, even though some of us have that ability, that is not what I'm talking about here. I can tell when someone is upset even if I don't know them and they are a far enough from me that I can barely see their face.
Body language plays a huge part in being able to tell the mood of a person. Picture a person walking towards you, their head forward and shoulders up with arms bent and their hands clenching and unclenching as they walk, now picture someone walking with their head up high back straight and hands in their pockets. Who is angry and who isn't in this scenario?
There are people out there that would still ask me how do I know that person isn't angry just by the way they walk or move, and my answer would be that I don't actually know but it is the best educated guess I can make and it's also one that usually proves true.
My question to them is how can you not know? Haven't you been a human being on this planet for as long as I have? Did your parents never show a range of emotions while you were growing up, how can you not know when someone is happy, sad, upset, depressed, or any other common emotion? Did you not get into trouble as a child? What did your parents faces look like when they punished you?
I watched a documentary the other day, where two people were talking and it turned ugly but one of the guys didn't realize that he was making the other guy upset and they just about killed each other. When he got interviewed he said he didn't realize he was making the other guy upset, and could not understand why punches were being thrown when he didn't read the situation he was putting himself in. They interviewed the other guy and he couldn't understand why the guy he ended up fighting didn't realize he was making the situation worse, The man even went on to say that he told the other guy to stop talking about the issue that was making him angry.
I have also met people out there that have no clue and continue to be clueless, they aren't handicapped, just clueless in all things in the world that makes us who we are.
Scott Goerz
