One of the earliest abilities that we develop in our life is the ability to communicate, I believe when you were only 1 year old you were already capable of telegraphic speech, like, Mama, if you're pertaining to your mom, or Papa for your dad or sometimes you create weird sounds if you want milk, but I was different, when I was nine months old when I want milk I just say "nipple"(with matching grasping movement of my two tiny, little hands) just to make sure that what I want was a mammary milk.
People used to misinterpret the things we try to convey because we lacked precision in communicating things that we want to tell them or our action differs from the words we passed on to its intended recipient. For some of us, I guess we need to re-learn how to be direct in what we are trying to convey.
Oh, by the way, we can be direct without being mean.
