To be great is to be misunderstood.

Anyone doing something genuinely new will be read against a template that does not fit, and the misreading is a consequence of the newness rather than of anybody’s stupidity. Consistency of the ordinary kind is what makes a person easy to summarise, and work that changes shape resists summary. The reverse does not hold, since being misunderstood is no evidence of anything on its own.

If you are pursuing something people around you keep getting wrong, you can stop trying to make them get it. Explain once, plainly, and then let the work do the rest. Reserve your energy for the few whose understanding you actually need.