Ah! A social / communicatoin question. Good one too.

   I take "being understood" as a personal challenge.

   I relish explaining myself 57 different ways if necessary to get
   someone else to say or show, "I understand" - even if they don't
   agree with me.

   But I understand when someone gets frustrated and goes, "THERE'S
   NO POINT IN TALKING TO YOU" when they feel misunderstood. I
   happen to be good at analogizing many different ways to explain
   myself but I understand not everybody relishes the challenge of
   being understood like me.

   I'm a weirdo in that way :P That being said, there _are_ times I
   just walk away from a conversation; and it's usually when
   there's no conversing going on, but merely boxing gloves. I like
   communicating in order to be understand but if someone is hell
   bent on convincing me, I find some way to agree and 'let them
   win' because, I'm not trying to win their battle. It's not my
   fight. They can have the trophy.