What is something that other people tell you about yourself that irritates you/triggers you?

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Could be true, could be false.

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

When young people say things to me that remind me I’m perceived as considerably older than them. I remember working at a job when I was 21 and we had this manager named Dale (lmao) who I think was like 42 at the time. Nice guy, and we’d hang out because he’d organize co-ed softball practices that eventually culminated into entry in charity tournament (I was the championship game MVP, NBD but KBD🤦‍♂️😂), but he was always just older and dorky to us. Obviously I think he was dorky 20 years before that, haha, but still, we’d always be laughing about him, or directly clowning on him, lmao, good-naturedly, you know, but…he was the target.

Now I’m 3 years older than him, holy shit😅 A lot of people think I’m a lot younger than my age, but I think they still think I’m in my early thirties, usually. And when I was at that same job, we had a guy who was 30-flat, and again, he was cool, but we were like “bruh, Bill is old as FUCK, he’s THIRTY😱😱😱”

And it’s not that I want to hang out with 21 year olds, but more just the reminder that time has moved on, and “my time” is over, for that phase of life, anyway. And I loved that phase of life, I wish it could’ve been forever in some regards, so that’s sad to think about.

I was kind of on that Van Wilder shit for a minute, like I was a professional college kid😂 I was in that social scene til my late 20s, and remained adjacent to it and occasionally involved in it til my early 30s. It felt like it would never end, but it eventually did, and more time than I can comprehend has passed since then, so now I’m totally removed.

I’m kind of a “Xennial” generationally, but the full blown Millenials were the first ones to make me start to feel old. And now THEY’RE old. Not OLD-old, but like not the current “it” generation anymore. And I’m Gen X if I had to be defined as that or a Millenial. I don’t know…. I guess it’s weird that I could be the parent of an adult Gen Z kid. I don’t feel like I’m Gen Z, of course, but I don’t “feel” like I’m not their age, in a lot of ways. But the reality is that I’m not, and every time one of those kids with the broccoli-headed haircut calls me “sir” in a cashier transaction or something, I die a bit inside, lmao.

Also, it doesn’t happen too much at my age in regular life, but in hockey (although it’s cooling down as I get to know more and more people I play against), telling me or suggesting to me in your demeanor or posture that I couldn’t bang you out if it came to blows gets me more than I’d like to admit.

I don’t think it’s true in most or all of the cases I’ve experienced, nor does it when “go there”, I guess we’d have to actually go to know the answer to that. But either way, I wish a simple “what are you gonna do?” when people are pushing and shoving didn’t make me want to respond physically, but it absolutely does, unless they’re visibly non-threatening enough to laugh at them. We all act like fucking children out there, it’s embarrassing when you get back to real life and remember you’re a grown man🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂😂😂

ProbablyClueless · Accepted Answer

I really don't appreciate being told that I'm clueless about plainly obvious things, to the point that I named my G@G account "ProbablyClueless" to make fun of it.

Being told that I'm ignorant just because I'm pointing out some provable material fact that the other person doesn't want to acknowledge is sooooo fucking cringe.

ClaircognizantEmpath · Accepted Answer

I according to my closest friend said only yesterday, when i start to talk about saving even a little bit, like £10 a week into investing etc you turn to granite!! very lmao... because... when i have to listen to anothers view point of my erractic behaviour, however, to myself, I've had an amazing idea and have smashed on with it.. yes... i have delayed two weeks rent payments which i can replace this very week but im up n running in production have a website, online store, then my friend sais oh damn now you're ahead of me already, i have struggled my whole entire life... over the years I've read and taken tests etc etc, i can take any online test and be bi polar, manic depressive, multi personality etc etc, i have a high i. q, turns out menopause pushed me over an edge i had no clue was there... it turns out that someone of my age, would never ever of been diagnosed with adhd or autism spectrum it barely existed... we had the naughty type boys at the time... so turns out when an undiagnosed women hits the menopause, her lifelong coping techniques she has developed get a frickin beating because estrogen helps protect a woman from her adhd symptoms but then they dramatically drop... only now in my fifties do i know im a neurodivergent, and my struggles have been real, i am on a waiting list for diagnosis after a g. p referral... and im no whiney fake ass bitch i can tell you,,, BUT if i tell you, something is currently too much for me to handle, then it FUCKIN well is... and DONT tell me i can...

7Phoenix7 · Accepted Answer

I just really dislike when people make assumptions about me in general... and negative ones at that. They are almost always wrong and it's annoying.

Makeushiver · Answer

I het tired of hearing about how hot I am and guys telling me that every girl they've dated was a p ill oh to het me between sheets. Plus I could do without every woman even my mother and grandmother saying wow that is one big sick like what did they think I had more than one puhleeeze. Then I'm always telling grandma take your goddess tongue out of my. mouth.

AlexEfron · Answer

The first impression that everyone has of me - "must be a nerd"

I find this irritating because once they get to know me, their perception changes - "you look innocent, but you're the <> person I know"

I don't know how to describe it in one word in English 🤣, but to give an idea, people often say something which means - nasty+devious+vulgar+inappropriate

Anonymous · Answer

I come across as spoiled.
No one knows that it comes at the extend of emotional abuse, to be presented with stuff though.
People spend money on me, no matter how often I tell them not to - they rarely spend their time on me, no matter how often I ask them to.

Nikki1989 · Answer

That I am an angry person who hates everyone. It is hilarious to anyone who actually knows me.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Arrogant, persistent, stubborn, inconsistent and

I've done a lot of work to try to MITIGATE those qualities and behaviors; I know I'll never rid myself of them completely but I'd like to reduce the effects and do what a lot of people do

MemeSupreme · Answer

people telling me i'm like either of my parents lol

ofc ik they don't mean anything bad so i'll be nice and hide it but if you're a friend then you already know not to say that so i'll just tell you to shut the fuck up lmao

Garud · Answer

Defaming one's character in front of four people without giving it much thought.  Stereotyping a person based on group identity like gender, nationality, skin colour, creed

mandyfire98 · Answer

Everybody thinks I'm younger than what I am. I still get accused of being a highschool student. I've had people argue with me about my age, like I don't know.

Unit1 · Answer

Nothing really. At least none, that i am aware of.

Potteplante · Answer

It irritates me when people can't hear I'm not from Denmark and compliment me on speaking the language so well. I don't show that irritation tho, just makes me practice my native language.

Sun_Kim-Ai · Answer

That sometimes I really resemble my father. Could be true, could be false, positive or negative, you make what you want of it. He was a very peculiar person.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Some people assume that I’m violent and aggressive, or that I’ve been in prison based on my external appearance. It’s kind of annoying. I’m actually a pretty chill guy, but I don’t tolerate disrespect.

exitseven · Answer

I cannot do all the stuff I could do when I was 25years old.

NewWaves · Answer

When people tell me where my priorities should lie in my work life balance. usually people who need my services. When I tell them that I want to focus on my personal life, it inconveniences them.

lorenzomichael · Answer

Nothing at all. Not to sound conceited but I’m like the coolest guy in the city. There isn’t anyone that knows me that’ll says shit to me where I get irritated, upset, or think that I did or said something wrong. I’m a friend of the community.

AviatorTom · Answer

Some people say I'm a negative person. Innit, actually very positive, which lot of people have complimented me on.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Nothing. If the criticism comes from someone I respect then I check myself. If it comes from some random who does not contribute positively to my life I ignore it.

debtfree_oneyear · Answer

When women tell me I'm too nice Or when people say I smile too much It's not like I get mad I'm just like why does that matter

Emmytexrex · Answer

Lol that I tease a lot and that I don't talk too much and even when I talk it mostly negative well that's there opinions

woahhh152 · Answer

If it's true then it doesn't trigger me as I like to work on myself. But if it's false then I'm instantly triggered when it's any serious topic

LiaRaven · Answer

That I am sexy, if I hear it from people I don’t know.

everising · Answer

You're a man and you love promise rings? How gay of you!

Peggy01 · Answer

“I’m to young to know anything”.

Changiis07 · Answer

That I look like a good girl

lex09xo_ · Answer

My mum and my problems or what they think

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

That my voice sounds like an AI.

LiamS95 · Answer

How thoughtful I am of others.

jahaims · Answer

Nothing. Why would it bother me what others think?

Guanfei · Answer

That I'm smart. That pisses me off.

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah, like I'm going to share that.😆

Slim57 · Answer

That I don't talk much, like no shit

Anonymous · Answer

for a long time, nothing

Anonymous · Answer

that i’m stupid

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