[thrav]

Are you saying you act that way, or they treat you that way?

People, for many reasons, automate other people in their minds. They define them, and aren’t willing to adapt their definition. They want the world to remain as they think it is, so they continue to treat it, and you, like it was.

Sounds like they’re clinging to a sense of superiority in an effort to delude themselves that you aren’t all that.