I understand the OP's confusion and frustration. As someone who has ADD, I have a very broad, all-encompassing sense of spatial awareness. Most people have some, and many peoples' are limited. In crowds especially, most people tend to forget and/or ignore their spatial awareness completely. They don't realize that there is a LOT of space 4 feet away, while they are crowding you 1 foot away. They're not paying attention to anything other than the very singular, limited, myopic viewpoint that their brain has chosen to focus on at the moment.
People with ADD tend to see a wider perspective because we have no choice. Some of us learn to block it out. Some of us take medication to treat it. And a few of us, like myself, learn how to use it to our advantage, as a skill, rather than a disability.
However with that skill comes the downside - the fact that most people can't do what comes naturally to you, turns into an annoyance. Why can't that person walking past me realize that he's exhaling his cigar smoke in my face? Why can't that person walking her dog notice that there's another person walking their dog coming her way, and that dog has its tail down and ears back? Why is that person at the other end of the bar not noticing that he is YELLING into his cell phone and disrupting the entire bar?
The reason: they aren't capable of noticing, OR they don't give a damn. It's one or the other.
So the woman who moved the barrier to get from point A to point B, thus being in the face of the OP, when that woman COULD have easily walked 4 extra steps to NOT be in the OP's face, was either ignorant, or arrogant. There's really no inbetween here.
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