Lots of good points like walking tall etc. I think that's good advice. Reckon you're right about the empathy thing and that it's how people chose to use that ability rather than believing empathy in itself is good.
I remember years a go a friend of mine telling me about someone getting very aggressive at her while she was queuing at an ATM. She was flustered but other than that I don't think she gave anything else away. She was a pretty confident sort. Anyway, this person really went at her, verbally, for nothing and she was quite correct when she asked me "how did they know I wasn't the sort of person to just turn around and hit them?"
I fully appreciate the batting it back type stuff but I think the real cause are the signals we give out. Anyway, thanks all.
I got thrown off YD, as I always do somewhere between 7 and 9pm, and logged back on to some very kind rep messages. Thanks for those and all the PMs
