Why is it people judge you, when they don't know you?

[Apple]

It's just a fact of life, human nature to judge things based on what we see. Many try their hardest not to but it's deep within us, you could say it is one of our basic survival instincts.

[,Lexiilu]

it's just natural really. some people don't even realize they do it (though most do). i think everyone has honestly judged someone they didn't know, whether they told someone or not. for example, to me, blonde cheerleaders automatically strike me as ****** without even knowing them or have talked to them, and a lot of the time i'm wrong. sometimes people don't take time to get to know other people and they just automatically judge them.

i've been called a **** more times than i can count behind my back, and yet i've only kissed a guy (and most people in my school don't know that). i've also been called emo, but i don't cut myself, nor do i have black hair. however a couple of my friends cut themselves, etc. therefore people associate me with them sometimes and think i'm the same. i also wear skinny jeans sometimes, wear black eyeliner and own quite a few black shirts. also i used to have reallyyyy dark almost black hair cos i dyed it, twice. basically people just assume a bunch of different things when they don't know the truth.

you just gotta ignore it and be the better person

[Special]

i don't really care if people judge me before they know me, everyone is entitled to their own opinion i guess even though i only do it when people have told me stores about a certain person

[chantellehugs]

A lot of my cousins friends judged me when I first met them. They said that I spoke in a posh way and that I never did anything wrong. But if I'm honest it didn't upset me, I don't mind people thinking I speak posh or I never do anything wrong. Because that's how I choose to live my life, and I'm happy doing so.
If people are going to judge me when they've never spoken to my properly, then they don't deserve to know the real me.

I admit that I do judge people based on what I see, but I don't say anything about it. I wait to see how the person acts towards me before setting my opinion in stone. I'm just more wary of those who don't seem like people I associate with.