Identifying the signs of a toxic person can help you understand why you often feel uncomfortable around a person, even when they are not overtly mean to you.
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One of the components most used by toxic people is passive-aggressiveness, which consists of a tendency to insult or be hostile to someone in an indirect way.
To help you identify how toxic people act through passive-aggressiveness, check out the following list of the main behaviors adopted by them.
5 signs a person is toxic
treatment of silence
The punishment of silence consists of ignoring a person, either in an answer or even pretending that he is not present in a certain place. The silent treatment is passive-aggressive behavior and happens in such a way as to make you question whether it's on purpose or not.
Insults spoken with subtlety
Subtle insults are difficult to identify because they are usually accompanied by praise. Something like “your work turned out great, almost as perfect as Ana's” is a form of disguised insult. Thus, the person insults some weakness in your personality to make you feel insecure.
moody behavior
Grumpy people often complain about everything around them. Attitudes like criticizing someone or not smiling at colleagues are common. This behavior can make others feel uncomfortable around that person, and often they don't even know why they feel that way.
Stubbornness
Stubbornness can be characterized as a way of punishing someone, especially when it is done just to annoy someone or to make others listen to their arguments. Stubbornness is not always a negative quality, but it is necessary to understand the reason behind this attitude.
Difficulty finishing activities
The tendency to blame other people for their activities or failure to meet deadlines when not associated with external events, such as family problems, can be characterized as toxic behavior and passive-aggressive.
How to deal with a toxic person?
One of the ways to deal with the passive-aggressive behavior of toxic individuals is to ignore the aggression. You can also ask, "I felt like you were trying to tell me X, is that right?" Thus, it is possible to disarm the person.
If you understand that indirect hostility behavior is bad for you, keeping your distance is also another recommended attitude.
