Annoying things people make their whole personality

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Anonymous wrote:Rich people who NEED you to know how poor they were growing up and bring it up constantly

I come from a poor and deeply dysfunctional family and am relatively successful. DH knows and a very close friend. No one else needs to know about my messed up family.

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This.

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“Latchkey kids”

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Boy moms

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Mothers of gifted children

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Anonymous wrote:Travel people. I’m a millennial and I don’t know how common this is with other age groups but the wanderlust/I have to be planning a trip or on one people are so annoying. Nothing against vacationing or traveling to interesting places but that, in itself, is not a personality.

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You are supposed to travel for yourself, not for bragging rights, but travel has somehow turned into a bragging rights thing, which is shameful.

Just last week I had some lady rail off a list of continents, countries, and cities she had traveled to. No insights, no stories…I guess the list was supposed to be the interesting part?

Do we know the same person? I ran into something I hadn’t seen in a long time and the first thing she told me was “I’ve been to 19 countries” since retiring.

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^^someone

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Faux-philosophers who took a survey course in college, are now experts.

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Burning Man

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Anonymous wrote:Being chronically ill with something bizarre (Ehler Danlos anyone) yet simultaneously constantly traveling/hiking

OMG, yes. Also telling everyone about your anxiety, nerdiness and introversion, talking about all of it often and without fear.

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Anonymous wrote:Travel people. I’m a millennial and I don’t know how common this is with other age groups but the wanderlust/I have to be planning a trip or on one people are so annoying. Nothing against vacationing or traveling to interesting places but that, in itself, is not a personality.

Good one. This feels worse in the DMV, too -- people are competitive about travel in a way that just makes no sense to me. That recent thread about private school parents bragging about their holiday travel plans was so cringey and so recognizable.

A related DMV personality is the "international" person, where their whole personality is about how many non-Americans they know, how much time they spend abroad, etc. It's such a peculiar vibe. I am NOT a super patriotic person but it is weird when I meet people from like Ohio or Illinois who desperately need me to know that they lived Germany for work for a year or that their friends are all foreigners like that's somehow more impressive than having worked in Seattle and having friends from Chicago. Just... who cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy moms

As a mom who has 3 boys, no girls I so wish this would die.

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Anonymous wrote:Their kids or grandkids
Their husbands salary
Getting drunk (I knew a lot of millennials who lived for the weekend)
Triathlon, Ironman people

Any niche sport/workout people. The Orange Theory people, the Pure Barre people, the "aerialists" (lady you're 45 and pay someone a few hundred dollars a week to show you how do do a half split on aerial fabric, you are not an aerialist), and of course, the original workout cult: Spin Cycle people.

You can add all the niche diet/cleanse people. If you fast for 23/24 hours and only eat raw macrobiotic food, for example.

The lemonade/cider vinegar/cayenne pepper cleanse people.

People who go on 30-day cleanses.

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The kind of cancer survivors who use it as a trump card or demand that everybody praise their courage. Persevering through medical treatment is an amazing thing, I am sincerely happy for them and wish all the best. But people survive all kinds of life threatening conditions without making it their identity.

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Anonymous wrote:Mothers of gifted children

Mothers of AAP/GT/High IQ/Mensa/TJHSST kids

Let me add Tiger Moms to above as a subcategory

HS niche activity/sport:Crew Mom/Band Mom/Dance Moms/Robotics League Parents

One trick Pony Parents: Niche interest of parent becomes be all/end all so chess/bridge/robotics instruction club, then fundraisers, competitions, playing room at dances, camps…

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Pretentious niche band/obscure music guy