read (someone or something) as (someone or something) – To form a particular interpretation or understanding of someone's or something's inherent nature.
Because of my neutral accent, most people read me as being from the Midwest, when I actually grew up in the Bronx.
—Farlex Dictionary of Idioms
read someone or something as something –
to interpret someone or something as something.
I read you as a quiet guy who wants to settle down and have kids.
Mary read the problem as one that did not require a lot of understanding.
—McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/read+her+as
To read someone as something ...
Ilya read the cop as intelligent, and he was already cutting Joley a break.
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RIKER: Why does the scanner read her as a human?
CRUSHER: Because she has a feedback processor designed to send out a false bio-signal.
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“It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn’t either. Noah was. But Adam was just quiet. He wasn’t lost for words; he was observing.”
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One can also look at the state of a person’s car to read him as well. If the car is full of dents and has trash strewn about, that person is likely to be a more reckless individual.
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... your gender expression is what’s visible about your gender to other people. How much do other people read you as masculine, feminine, a bit of both, something else, or perhaps nothing at all? This could depend on how you dress, walk, talk or act, or on your body shape. Some of your gender expression – like your haircut, clothing or makeup – could change from day to day.
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Please do not infer the gender identity of the other person from their appearance. Just because you read someone as male or female does not mean that person identifies that way.
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Pregnancy, and the physical changes that come with it, amplifies the attributes that we read as feminine and makes more obvious what specific bodily characteristics we look for in order to read someone as female.
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While most people read someone as female or male and use the pronoun series that seems to fit, it’s clear that that doesn’t always work.
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