Is it normal for a friend to react this way?

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Yesterday my friend and I were walking to college, and he was unusually quiet. Several times I tried to initiate a conversation, but all I got were one word answers. So I figured he didn't really want or have the energy to talk, so I let it go. I thought we were close enough to enjoy comfortable silence. He didn't talk very much during the class either, but since it was early morning, I thought he just wasn't in a chatty mood.
Anyway after class, he tells me and my other friend that he's going home now. I ask why, and he says its because he feels sick or something. After I tell him that he should have told me, he responds "Well you didn't even ask, and I find that annoying and rude" or something like that. He then storms off. Like a queen.

What that really necessary? I did not know quietness = "ask me what's wrong, or I'll be mad!" This to me just seems so childish.

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  • Darkoil
    11 years ago

    He sounds like a little bitch, knock him out next time he steps out of line and then makke new friends.

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    You both sound childish. Sometimes when some people aren't feeling well, either mentally or physically, they might snap at people close to them.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      This.

      It's not really a big deal, OP.

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  • Devyn
    11 years ago

    It sounds like he has personal or relationship problem that he's having trouble coping with. Evidence:

    He probably has lots of pent up emotion and it's just being released as anger when he snaps at you, it's not personal.

    In that situation it's also normal to act irrationally and to expect others to see your problem as more important than it is. Thus it was normal for him to expect you ask him about it.

    Furthermore this sort of mental state casts a negative view point on everything and so he'll resent you not asking him about it as if it's your fault.

    Yes, he's being unreasonable, but it's not his fault, try to help him through it.

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  • Ldizzy1234
    11 years ago

    Sometimes I ask people whats wrong if they're being very quiet. But with other people, being quiet is sometimes just their personality. Still, I think that even though its not your friends 'personality', and they were acting... not themselves, they're overreacting.

    You're not a mind reader, and a lot of people sometimes don't bother asking, because they think its none of their business, and that if they were hurting enough, they would just say something and bring it up themselves.

    I'd just apologize when you see him next, and let him know that you really had no idea. If he can't accept that, thats being childish.

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  • SangoNyappy
    11 years ago

    Well I often act rude when I feel seick and everything seems annoying to me so I think it's normal but that wasn't nice at all..

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