Annoying things people make their whole personality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being pregnant.

I mean, being pregnant is sort of an all encompassing thing so I give anyone a pass on it feeling like a defining trait while they are pregnant. When it gets annoying to me is when someone is pregnant for like 10 years, or talks about being pregnant for 10 years. At some point I am no longer interested in hearing about your water retention or how hard it is to sleep in the third trimester or how your 12.5 week appointment went.

But first babies? I get it. Pregnancy is weird. It's like living abroad for a year -- it's not a permanent change in who you are, but it's specific enough experience that you are going to be pretty consumed by it. But just as I would not be interested in hearing about your junior year abroad 10 years later, I also no longer care about your pregnancy experience at that point either. Move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People whose spiritual journeys are their personality. Those ayahuasca, yoga retreat, crystal, law of attraction people that meditate on their past lives while the rest of us pick up their slack at work.

Oh my god, I think I might be this person? Am I annoying?

Well, do you broadcast it? If so, yes. If it defines your identity but you can also converse about a broad variety of topics and be interested in other people, then you probably are not annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen X here, living in LA, surrounded by annoying people who all act like Gen y or z, even when some of them are actually boomers:

Your food intolerances or ‘allergies’ or preferences or whatever you want to call it, when it’s just really a new way of having an eating disorder

Your mental health and your trauma, and your personal truth and your history and your blah blah blah used to excuse your behaviour. Keep it to yourself and keep moving.

Your reiki or your meditation or your yoga or your spinning or your cult or whatever, do you. Do whatever makes you happy but please keep it to yourself.

Your political views, your extremes leaning beliefs, your black or white thinking. I don’t care.

How you hate going to the office. How work is so hard and it’s not okay to have to work 40hrs a week. If you don’t like it, GET ANOTHER JOB, OR SHUT UP, AND GET OFF MY LAWN.

Your sexual orientation or gender or non gender or whatever - I don’t care, just be who you are. You are all accepted and I don’t need to know who you are or are not bonong or if you’re fluid or whatever, I don’t care.

Shut up and get off my lawn? In all caps? I can see where you are coming from with these but I suspect you are a generally annoying person too.

[Anonymous]

New moms, especially those with “rainbow babies” (and I know there is a fine line here, but if you lose a pregnancy at 5 weeks, it is VERY different from a losing a pregnancy at 16+ weeks)

Ironman participants

Military wives

[Anonymous]

Their alcohol addiction: We get that your in your late 40's, you're still "cool" and go out to bars to drink, party at concerts, go out like 6 nights a week dressing like you're 15 again, with other haggard women. Then post all over social media. The thirst is embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their alcohol addiction: We get that your in your late 40's, you're still "cool" and go out to bars to drink, party at concerts, go out like 6 nights a week dressing like you're 15 again, with other haggard women. Then post all over social media. The thirst is embarrassing.

On the flip side, recovering alcoholics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s another one, straight from my family;

Women who always recount their foibles, mistakes, embarrassing moments, klutzy moves, inability to arrive on time anywhere,
supposed medical emergencies, lack of planning, etc. in great detail—wrapped up in a supposedly funny story—to show how positively “quirky” and spontaneous and adorable you are in your naïveté and worldview. No. You are not cute or funny or charming. We’re all sick of you thinking you are some intriguing character. You are just immature and unwell.

Sounds like Main Character Syndrome and yes, it is annoying and distinctly immature.

And Manic Pixie Dream Girl, maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their alcohol addiction: We get that your in your late 40's, you're still "cool" and go out to bars to drink, party at concerts, go out like 6 nights a week dressing like you're 15 again, with other haggard women. Then post all over social media. The thirst is embarrassing.

Oh wow - I know some nice, decent, normal dressing couples who like to go out on dates, sometimes to concerts, sometimes to restaurants, or whatever. They just seem to be enjoying their lives. Your post seems rather mean spirited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s another one, straight from my family;

Women who always recount their foibles, mistakes, embarrassing moments, klutzy moves, inability to arrive on time anywhere,
supposed medical emergencies, lack of planning, etc. in great detail—wrapped up in a supposedly funny story—to show how positively “quirky” and spontaneous and adorable you are in your naïveté and worldview. No. You are not cute or funny or charming. We’re all sick of you thinking you are some intriguing character. You are just immature and unwell.

Sounds like Main Character Syndrome and yes, it is annoying and distinctly immature.

And Manic Pixie Dream Girl, maybe.

+1

I had a boss who behaved this way - always had to be the loudest, most know it all, and "funniest" in the room. Yet, she could not get along with anyone. So boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their alcohol addiction: We get that your in your late 40's, you're still "cool" and go out to bars to drink, party at concerts, go out like 6 nights a week dressing like you're 15 again, with other haggard women. Then post all over social media. The thirst is embarrassing.

Oh wow - I know some nice, decent, normal dressing couples who like to go out on dates, sometimes to concerts, sometimes to restaurants, or whatever. They just seem to be enjoying their lives. Your post seems rather mean spirited.

They were talking about older women who are married but are acting single. Not women on dates with their husbands. Reading is fundamental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being pregnant.

+100

And women who's entire identity is their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s another one, straight from my family;

Women who always recount their foibles, mistakes, embarrassing moments, klutzy moves, inability to arrive on time anywhere,
supposed medical emergencies, lack of planning, etc. in great detail—wrapped up in a supposedly funny story—to show how positively “quirky” and spontaneous and adorable you are in your naïveté and worldview. No. You are not cute or funny or charming. We’re all sick of you thinking you are some intriguing character. You are just immature and unwell.

That's my mom! She loves to talk about how weird she is/ our family is. We're not. Totally mainstream middle American WASPs.

And everything is an occasion for attention-grabbing. Like if she spills food on her shirt, she doesn't calmly and quietly wipe it off, she exclaims Oh I'm so clumsy, you can't take me anywhere, I must be such an embarrassment to you... Well, yeah. But if you had just taken care of the totally-normal incident without calling the attention of the entire restaurant...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their alcohol addiction: We get that your in your late 40's, you're still "cool" and go out to bars to drink, party at concerts, go out like 6 nights a week dressing like you're 15 again, with other haggard women. Then post all over social media. The thirst is embarrassing.

Yeah, I have some friends like that. We've drifted apart. I got tired of being asked to keep their kids so they could go out and hook up with strangers. I'm divorced too, but I did not ever need them to "return the favor wink wink"

[Anonymous]

I’m only like 3 of these things. So I’m balanced.

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Cancer Survivor