I generally have to manage my first reaction & pop up thoughts anytime someone talks to me with their arms folded across their chest or hands on their hips. More so with strangers than with knowns, but even still.

There's  lot of suggested non verbal communication and room for misinterpretation for sure. However, the majority of the time there's a trend or pattern of something - righteousness, dominance, arrogance, ego, know it all, excessive confidence...

I constantly have to fight this feeling of "do you know who you're talking to?" or "look at you, you smug..." and miss out on half of what's discussed.

Then that makes me question that if I'm having these thoughts in response, what does it suggest I think about myself in the same regard?