Being patronized

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Well it felt a mix between patronising and humiliating. I did feel humiliated, but I don't think my friend delibrately intended to humiliate me, she was just patronising.

She assaulted you, Joe90. She laid hands on you and yanked on your arm to stop you from boarding. That's what you wrote.

If she were patronizing you, she would have said something like, Oh, Joe90. You're so eager to get on. Let's let all the old people board first.

But that's not what she did and that's not what she said. She wounded your pride by making you think badly of yourself, as if you were some ret*d child.

And you still want to think you were patronized?

I sometimes am treated like that by friends or family members. Sometimes I'll have someone grab my arm to stop me from crossing the street in front of traffic when I had no intention of crossing at that exact moment - very insulting, and I tell them so. I would have said the same to that friend, or, if I didn't feel comfortable speaking up, reassess the friendship.
"Treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority" does apply here, imho. The friend was probably "helping" the OP behave appropriately, in her mind, and felt the need to do so because she already believed he didn't understand how to behave. If she thought of him as an equal, even if she didn't see the other passenger wave him ahead, she would have assumed he had good reason for his actions and let him be.

Frenemy.

I often find it difficult to decide what to have to eat. But I find it patronizing when father goes out and buys me something I didn't particularly want and then uses the "you never know what you want so I decided" excuse. Fastest way for me to fly into a rage....

Nope , I know I am more intelligent than most people , even the mensa iq test told me this .Having said this I feel pretty dumb , do you ?

Being ignored around here is patronizing , somebody anybody respond to this post .....

Yes , I have been told I am good looking or a "nice guy " Don't believe it I feel ugly and horrible , just like many of the people around here feel like

I guess it depends on what you call patronized. But I have some options.

When I was volunteering and they brought up an issue with me to my mother instead of me.

When my sister sometimes speaks for me in public, or tells me how to act. (To be fair I have some selective mutism, and also tend to have speech issues like stuttering when over stimulated. I also have difficulty understanding people sometimes).

When an ex friend of mine stopped being friends with me at school because he was being bullied by association.

Anyway my sixth grade science teacher would ever speak to me.

I haven't been patronized by older people, because they realize I know things that a lot of people might not know in a factual sense and we have good discussions. Nobody patronizes me now, but I do feel left out of a lot of things because of my late start in doing a lot of normal adult things. I am surprised how understanding people are of me. Some even like me. I am always afraid that my lack of experience will set me apart.

One thing I find frustrating is when people say, "You're just as good as anyone else," when this isn't the objective truth. I have a long way to go and I know it.