"Be Yourself" Only Works for People Who Aren't Annoying

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BLKNSLVR2• 29 days ago

I find this an interesting conundrum as someone acquainted with a person who seems resistant to 'meeting the world halfway' to their own consistent detriment.

Yes, they're different in various ways, but they'll never find "their peeps" without some amount of compromise. A situation to which they appear to be completely blind.

I try to hint at such things, but part of their thing is that they're incredibly sensitive to criticism, and so it has to be very subtle, unfortunately seemingly to the point of ineffectual.

It's an odd combination of "I am deserving of better" and a "paralysing lack of self confidence".

pestatije• 29 days ago

resistant to 'meeting the world halfway' to their own consistent detriment

i am resistant to AI slop...what does that even try to mean?

adammarples• 29 days ago

Pretty straightforward idiomatic English, no? It means disinclined to compromise, yielding poor results.

BLKNSLVR2• 29 days ago

It's not AI slop thank you very much. That's how I write. I choose my words to be meaningful and I believe I usually achieve my goal.

Fnord.

dude250711• 29 days ago

This would have been a revelation in the 90s.

"Be Yourself" Only Works for People Who Aren't Annoying

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