Why are people so weirded out by "Quiet" people?

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I don't understand it. I will just be sitting in a corner, reading my book, not bothering anyone at all, and then I hear girls whispering "She's weird", or "I don't like her", "She is creepy".
I can tell they are talking about me because out of my peripheral vision, I can see them pointing and looking at me.

I have never even talked to them before, so how do they come to all these conclusions?!


What is so horrible about being quiet?

They think you're antisocial or they think you think you're better than everyone.

Because they are pwnable n0obs

My mother told me the second part. She told me kids will think I think I'm better than them if I don't hang out with them. I asked her how she knew and she said because it happened to her.

Because quiet people are all highly likely to become serial killers.
/sarcasm

I slightly understand "Fear of what is not understood".

What is irrational is that people are so quick to dislike if you don't immediately start to bask in the glory of their presence.

it's all right, as long as you don't own a copy of 'Catcher in the Rye'...

I think at a certain age, girls or women band together in extreme situations to enforce conformity on each other. They're so desperate to be 'all alike', that they're afraid of 'difference'. By pointing you out, they validate their 'sameness'...

sounds weird, but that's how I see it.

Because quiet people scare others because they wonder what they are keeping so quiet about. ie:plotting to take over the world, etc.

They may also think someone is weird based on what the front of the book they are reading has on it as in title or illustrations. Also weird facial expressions or lack of facial expressions scare others as does someone who does not make eye contact. If you want to read a book and not speak to others you really need to do that is a secluded place where no one else is nearby that way you can't be considered antisocial.

That's one thing I've always wondered myself. I was extremely quiet all through out high school and I was treated like I was a bad person or that I was doing something wrong. I was always known as the kid who never talked, voted the quietest for senior superlatives in the year book, ect. I guess to normal people, being quiet is something that's not natural to them. Much like how being social is not natural to us. So, we stick out like a sore thumb. Because they are much more social then we are, they are blinded by the fact that not everyone is like them; plus we live in their world. Overall, people who may make fun or bother people like us are simply people who will never understand why we aren't like them. You just got to shrug off what they may say or do to you. Be better then them. Our brains work differently then theirs.

One of the great mysteries of the universe .