Brendan Kane explains how fear disguises itself as criticism, distance, or jokes. When someone can't control your growth, they try to make you smaller. George Bernard Shaw said hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Here's how you know someone is afraid of you, like you make their world fall apart. And this goes back to a quote from George Bernard Shaw who wrote, "Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated." Basically what this means is that when someone feels intimidated by you, they may not admit it as fear. They turn it into criticism. They turn it into distance. They turn it into little jokes meant to make you doubt yourself. So when someone is afraid of you, it doesn't always look like fear. It looks like them trying to make you smaller the moment they realize they can't control how big you're becoming. Because what scares them isn't that you're cruel, is that they found someone they can't shrink, guilt, or control. That's the real sign someone is afraid of you. They're not afraid of your power. They're afraid they can't have power over you.
