There is a scene in MLP:FM where ponies ask Twilight what a device does, she happily answers explaining not only what it does but how, then they turn to Spike and ask the same question getting a very basic answer because they did not understand Twilight even though everything that Spike says was part of what Twilight said.
This is my fucking life - all of it.
Just the other night, two local Furs who do not get out often, vocally wondered why they were popular, I explained that they were kind and agreeable: they did not make arguments and they did not take sides when arguments arose. There was an unhappy silence for just a moment before the person sitting next to me said, "Let's just say you have class." I don't understand why it is so bad to tell the truth. Saying a person has class leaves too much unclear.
I mean no offense to him, but there is someone I've been talking to for a long time that makes me want to cry because I've been trying to help him understand many things in life, so I speak the core of that wisdom and he does not understand because I have answered all of the questions at once rather than each one at a time. In the end I am not wrong, because when he does figure out his specific problem I point out how his answer is a different wording of what I have already said.
If you don't understand how the above could happen, consider the following example scenario: all ferrets are weasels, not all weasels are ferrets, and I was talking about care for pet weasels, where he wanted advice for his pet ferret.
Friend has problem or asks question, I give advice/answer, advice/answer is not understood, and I suffer because of continuing dissatisfaction. This is how it is for just about everyone with whom I communicate.
I dare to dream of a time and place where I will be understood.
