Torrefaction

I'm writing a story with a telepath in it, and I find myself falling back on the parameters set by other treatments of telepathy - proximity-based effect, touch-based effect, inhuman characters (vamps, androids) aren't readable, it's hard for telepaths to be comfortable around other people, etc.  I generally try to do something new with tired old concepts, but on this one my muse is just being damn lazy.

So I've gotten as far as realizing that having a teep character feel more relaxed around someone inhuman whose mind she can't read is straight outta Sookie-Stackhouse-land and has to go.  And I'm guarding against totally ripping off the paramaters of telepathy from Babylon 5 The Demolished Man. But my thinkpan is probably full of other telepath ideas that I may not know are overused or unoriginal. 

So, internets, wanna help me out?  What are some telepath clichés? Which ones are particularly tiresome?