Is it normal for people to think i don't listen just because i don't agree?
In college I regularly talk about politics and philosophical beliefs, with others at the dinner table. I'm considered to be on the extreme end of the conservative spectrum, and their was a girl named anna,( or alfred later on) who was on the extreme end of the liberal spectrum.
Anyways if you couldn't guess we didn't exactly see eye to eye.
Nevertheless I enjoyed most of the debates, as I enjoy talking to people who have different ideas, it makes things more interesting.
One thing that bothered me though, looking back on the debates we used to have(she left the college) I remembered she said that I didn't listen to anything she said. This sincerely bothered me because I know for certain it isn't true. In fact I recall asking her to explain several terms to me like pansexual, and something called third gender, which I still don't understand what that is.
I did listen to the things she said and even asked follow up questions, but she insisted that I didn't listen because my own beliefs and views never changed.
is it normal for someone to think that you don't listen to them just because you don't agree with them.