I think we all had these annoying situations where an uninformed people doesn’t know what they are talking about. Do you have any particular one that grinds your gears?

  • SorryforSmelling@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’ll go first (since i forgot to add mine in the post) I dislike it very much when someone thinks they can “cure” my shyness/anxiety by putting a spotlight on me or putting me in a cringy situation. It just makes me wish the earth would swallow me whole.

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      1 year ago

      At school we where forced to have a lesson in “spoken word”. We did not have our usual teacher but instead a spoken word artist as substitute for these lessons.

      I don’t know what their plan was but they put me specially on the spot twice. Once when reading a poem we had to write. Mine was more of a tongue twister then a poem, had me perform it in front of the class.

      Then there was one class about improv. Where you guessed it, I was chosen to improv with some other students… I did not get better. I got worse from that experience.

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        1 year ago

        im so sorry to hear that. forcing people to be social or performative is pretty ableist and often does more harm than good. i always find it nice if i am allowed to participate. but not forced. schools often get that wrong in my personal experience.

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          1 year ago

          The amount of presentations in front of the class I’d have to do. Even up into university.

          I think the only presentation I was not utterly terrified for was my master thesis presentation, which is also the only presentation that ever mattered. I had plenty of time to prepare, it was fully online (pandemic time), I talked about something I cared about and I did it from home ^^