u/MarchPlastic1650

I have noticed this happening more often lately. You share an idea, people ignore it or brush it off, and then a day or two later, the same person repeats the exact same idea in a meeting or even at home as if it came from them.

No change in wording, no new angle, no credit, and sometimes they do it right in front of you.

I am curious if others have experienced this too. How do you handle it without sounding petty or overly defensive?

Sometimes I feel like body language is where half the world gets confused.

You smile, make eye contact, laugh at someone’s joke, or stand a little comfortably near them, and suddenly someone is thinking, “Wait, was that flirting?” Meanwhile the other person was just being polite and surviving the day.

What’s the funniest or most confusing body language signal you’ve ever misread, or seen someone else misread?