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Happy Hour #50: Too Much · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told your production by Heart radio. You know, occasionally, Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a robot and sometimes I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I sound very robotic during that intro. But I did
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  Speaker 1: just have to do it twice and it kind of
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: tripped me up a bit because I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: stuck in the same moment over and over again. To
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  Speaker 1: be fair, that was my fault because I was unprofessionally
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  Speaker 1: drinking on the mic, and I was like, this is
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  Speaker 1: not people already complain. Why am I doing this? Let's
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  Speaker 1: do that again, So my bad on that one. It's
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: all good because it's time for another happy Hour and
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  Speaker 1: as I always, drink responsibly if you choose to do so.
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  Speaker 1: We are kind of doing a huge, very long recording
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  Speaker 1: session today, so it's a bit of a cheat. Still
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  Speaker 1: sipping on very long yes, well this is a last
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  Speaker 1: thing for today. Yes, uh so we're still sipping on
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  Speaker 1: what we had for the happy hour. You that came
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: out too happy hours ago a wile ago, thanks the
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  Speaker 1: thankful one. So I'm still sipping on my gin and
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: tonic and do you on your wine? Still still open
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  Speaker 1: on the Vino Verde that I still love. Yes, so
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: we are now in again. I don't know when you're
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: listening to this, but I'm assuming it's And as part
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: of this episode, it actually kind of relates to I
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Believe a Monday Minnie that's coming out soon about kind
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: of feeling doubt and insecure in your job and in
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  Speaker 1: your performance, which we're going to be discussing. That's the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. I have been thinking about, this idea being
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  Speaker 1: too much and feeling like I'm too much a lot lately.
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  Speaker 1: And this whole thing is precipitated by a holiday party
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  Speaker 1: that Samantha and I went to. But before I get
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  Speaker 1: into that, it also, of course, I have a fan
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  Speaker 1: fiction story about this because I I found a fan
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  Speaker 1: fiction and there are a lot of fan fiction about
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  Speaker 1: a sexual people and a sexual people being in relationships
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  Speaker 1: with non asexual people. Most of the ones I have
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  Speaker 1: read are told from the point of view of the
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  Speaker 1: a sexual person, which makes sense, but I just read
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  Speaker 1: one from the other side of this point of view,
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  Speaker 1: and it was really moving and it was really well written,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, because I've just never had
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  Speaker 1: this conversation with somebody in a relationship before, and the
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  Speaker 1: person who wasn't a sexual kind of had this breakdown
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  Speaker 1: and kept saying, like, I feel like I'm too much,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm too much, I asked for too much, I
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  Speaker 1: need too much, and they were tears. Ship there were tears.
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  Speaker 1: But I just got to thinking about that because I
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  Speaker 1: know I've discussed before, and we've discussed before, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times I do feel like I'm too much, or
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  Speaker 1: I asked for too much, or like I have to
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  Speaker 1: hide pieces of myself that because if you knew that,
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  Speaker 1: if you knew that about me, or if I asked
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  Speaker 1: for something, then you're not worth to ask, like the
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  Speaker 1: people will be, you'll scare them away to be because
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  Speaker 1: she is not worth how much effort she is asking
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  Speaker 1: of me, which is often ridiculous because a lot of
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: times it's really small things, like it's hard for me
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  Speaker 1: because I am a very passionate person. But in the
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  Speaker 1: back of my head, I'm like, why do people put
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: up with me? Like why did I why don't they
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  Speaker 1: let me talk about all this stuff? And I try
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  Speaker 1: to hide it. It's so funny. My mom has started
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  Speaker 1: watching Star Wars on Sundays. It is really cute, but
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  Speaker 1: it took me forever to even tell her. And I
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  Speaker 1: love my mom and we're really open with each other,
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  Speaker 1: but took me forever to even tell her. I did
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  Speaker 1: that because I thought it would be too much, and
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  Speaker 1: then she was going to feel like she had to
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  Speaker 1: do it if I was home on Sundays, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be embarrassed and thinking she hate
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  Speaker 1: followed this and she wants to she wants it to
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  Speaker 1: be over, and just getting really in my head about
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Um, and then you know, you scale
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  Speaker 1: that up in a relationship and you're thinking you have
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  Speaker 1: to minimize yourself, you have to be small or else
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  Speaker 1: this person is going to leave. And I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of women relate to that. But yes, recently we
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  Speaker 1: had this party. Is the first time Samantha and I
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  Speaker 1: have been in an event. It was outdoors and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that many people, but it was more people than
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely interacted with in a while. And I think
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  Speaker 1: because my a lot of my persona has been built
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  Speaker 1: on like she's always doing something, she's always busy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people give you that question like what are you doing? What?
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  Speaker 1: How are you and it's just silence because you're like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: staying in Star Wars or whatever. But that's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: is like you're doing something. You found such a passion
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  Speaker 1: for this, and you've always had it, but you've been
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  Speaker 1: able to dig into it legitimately, like all the way
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  Speaker 1: into it. That's where I'm like, I watch any watch
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars Like that isn't my response because we just
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  Speaker 1: had a moment and it's hilarious because both of us
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: apparently are on the same truck emotionally, and yes, we
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  Speaker 1: were definitely triggered by this party, which is hilarious because
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  Speaker 1: from my standpoint, and I've already kind of said this,
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  Speaker 1: you were on point and everybody was loving you as
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  Speaker 1: where I was disappearing and people were running away from me.
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  Speaker 1: So it was kind of like we just had a
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  Speaker 1: weird opposite interaction. And of course it could be in
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  Speaker 1: my head because I'm always in my head, and in
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  Speaker 1: my head, I'm the worst person ever, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: back to being too much, and that is absolutely like
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the way. That has been a haunt tagline
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  Speaker 1: for me since pretty much like young young toddler hood self.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a whole thing with this with you,
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  Speaker 1: as like you and I have talked about this many times,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm like, I'm non existent and people don't even
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  Speaker 1: realize I'm here. When I show up. It's more of
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: an awkward hey, hey, what you do and oh, okay, bah,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm the one who's asking how are you? And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I shouldn't be asking you that,
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  Speaker 1: because this is a really horrible time frame for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, and that's not a question that you
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  Speaker 1: want to ask someone. But on top of that, myself,
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: in general, I'm a very intense person like that. There's
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  Speaker 1: no good getting around it. I really wish I wasn't
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: sometimes because when I'm asking you how you are, I'm
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: legitimately asking you, and then when you start talking to me,
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask more questions. And I've been told
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: many of times Smith that's not really appropriate. They just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people want to just be and make the
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  Speaker 1: like a superficial questions and move on in life. And
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  Speaker 1: I realized, Okay, that's too much. My intensity is too much, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And I've really had to try to scale back to
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  Speaker 1: the point that I've had to say it out loud
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: to people like, I'm so sorry if this is getting
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  Speaker 1: too deep. I promise I'll stop. It's just I'm incapable
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  Speaker 1: of not following through or having follow up if I
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: hear something, And that's all to do with my own past,
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: my own traumas, my own training, my own empathy, Like
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  Speaker 1: that's just that's just hack. I can't and if I
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  Speaker 1: see a signal, it's hard for me not to see it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, there's so much in in in all
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: of this, because if you have long time listeners, might
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  Speaker 1: remember back when I did my we did our therapy
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: sessions and we did episodes where we shared those with you,
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  Speaker 1: and I was talking about how I always feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's this performance and it's so fake, and that people
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  Speaker 1: are going to see that it's fake, and that if
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  Speaker 1: they get any hint of, like any glimpse of the
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  Speaker 1: real me or whatever is really going on, and they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna want to deal with me anymore. I had
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: a friend tell me, you create problems by not trying
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  Speaker 1: to create problems, because I'm trying so hard to not
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  Speaker 1: annoying people because I think I'm annoying presence, I won't
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  Speaker 1: text you, or I won't because I think you'll be
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  Speaker 1: annoyed um with my silly thoughts on whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not even necessarily thought of, something small
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  Speaker 1: and I still won't do it. And I was even
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  Speaker 1: like that with my parents or I was like there
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  Speaker 1: one day, they're just gonna be like nope. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes what happens, I feel like for me is I'll
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  Speaker 1: go to these parties and I'm having fun and there's
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  Speaker 1: alcohol involved, and my inhibitions will go down and I'm
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  Speaker 1: being more open than I would normally be. And that's
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: not not even about like private stuff. But I was
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: trying to convince this guy about why the Last of
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  Speaker 1: Us two is the best of us the best game ever. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so things like that that are not like that me
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  Speaker 1: and Tyler and later like they're fun conversations and I
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  Speaker 1: like them. There's something I probably wouldn't do unless I
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  Speaker 1: really know you very well. And so at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the night, I've had all these conversations to people
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  Speaker 1: and it had been fun, and I've been really like
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  Speaker 1: outgoing and loud and probably more than I normally am
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  Speaker 1: because normally I'm pretty like preserved with people I don't
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  Speaker 1: know very well. And I got home and I just
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  Speaker 1: like totally broke down and just solved for ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: like real sobs, and there was a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: going on, but one of the things like I shrunken
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  Speaker 1: and my friends have seen me do this. If I
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: get really upset, like I will literally make myself small.
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  Speaker 1: I will get in a ball and I will It
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  Speaker 1: looks really painful, it's like a pretzel thing, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: just like stay there because it's like I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. I don't want to be heard because
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  Speaker 1: now everyone's seen me in heard me, and they're going
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: to realize like, oh, she's a terrible person, or oh
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  Speaker 1: I don't want her around, or she's not worth having around,
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  Speaker 1: she's too much, And it's I don't know. It's one
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: of those really frustrating, like insecurities to shake, and I
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  Speaker 1: know it is mine, and I like know it. There's
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  Speaker 1: like a thought I can think and it's if I
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: told it to you wouldn't think it's that bad. But
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  Speaker 1: it is enough to just wreck me. And a lot
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: of times when I talk to people about fan fiction,
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: and then they're always like, she reads the saddest stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I do read sad stuff. But really a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is just about not feeling like you're worth it like,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: it's not super tragic, it's just oh that's not right. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no again, I'm with you and like again. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that the statement that has ever haunted me and
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: makes me tear up, and you can hear to my
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: voice when I say that I'm in the way or um,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: the whole rejection. But being in the way is my
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: biggest game fear, which is an absurd fear because it
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't sound right in any aspects of like being in
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  Speaker 1: the way, What do you mean? Do you mean physically?
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  Speaker 1: Do you mean all these things? I'm like, I know
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  Speaker 1: all of it, being literally cast out of a house
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: to another person, to another person, to another person, to
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: an orphanage where some of my big traumas happened. I
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  Speaker 1: physically react to the thought of being in the way
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  Speaker 1: and that I have to prove myself and don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what that truly means to truly understand. The same
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  Speaker 1: thing is like I'm being too much, I'm being too loud,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I'm being too obnoxious, I'm being too needy. Those are
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: three of the biggest things that I fear, and I
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: worked so hard to pred on the persona of being
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: independent that anything else doesn't feel natural, and feel like
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  Speaker 1: it feels like a violation of who I am, which
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  Speaker 1: is not necessarily true. And again so many questions. So
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: being vulnerable in any any way going to an event,
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: which feels like, especially with jobs in an event, and
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: I'm one of the older ones as a podcasting host,
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: like at this up and trending new type of culture
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: and subset, I feel out of place. I'm not white,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: i am not a man, i am forty years old,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I am adopted, and I have barely gotten through life
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: in so many ways, and so being in this aspects
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: and again like many of y'all are journalists and writers
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: and actors, and I'm like, hey, I lived in l J,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia when the University of Georgia social work. Yeah, so
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: all of those insecurities is so huge, and you're right,
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: like feeling like I'm always in the way and therefore
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I am a nuisance and literally a diversity token. That's
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: been a huge thing in my head anyway. But add
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  Speaker 1: that to the fact that I have been told that
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been wanted and that they're all of these
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  Speaker 1: things literally being cast aside, passed around trying to find
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  Speaker 1: someone to solve this problem called me, um, hey, that's
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  Speaker 1: my men more. But yeah, I definitely get that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure. So I haven't gotten to the point where
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  Speaker 1: I can say I'm sure it's all in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I don't know if that's true, but I
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: will say, like, it's interesting to see you having those
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: same thoughts who I think you're You're literally, to me,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: the center of attention, not because you're trying to put
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: yourself there, but because people adore you. To that point,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: we've been I've been gushing over you all day, so
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep going with it. But essentially with
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  Speaker 1: what I saw at the party, as I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to in a way, M well, that's one of the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I always find it so interesting with with
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  Speaker 1: you and a lot of my friends who are women.
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  Speaker 1: I'll hear you say something like this, and but I
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: think you're so amazing and I think you're so great,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: and I don't see that. But I'm also doing it
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  Speaker 1: like I think it's just such a common the way
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: we see each other and the way we see ourselves.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I wanted to bring it up,
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  Speaker 1: because after we talked about this. I was like, this
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  Speaker 1: is so interesting to me that we're kind of we're
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: just we're struggling with the same thing. It's just viewing
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: it and interpreting it differently. And like I guess, like
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I said, we we are very different in how we
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: deal with stress, so we're kind of outwardly appearing very different,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: but inwardly, yeah, very similar. Like we may react differently,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: but it's for the same reasons. That's it's fascinating. Of course,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: you know people are different peop we are unique, and
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  Speaker 1: we know this. But that's the thing is like this
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: whole idea of the impostor syndrome, I don't think that
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: that word is strong enough for this. This is not
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: impostor syndrome. This is a trauma that we suffered again
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: going through our own experiences, but also being women in
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: a society that has been taught to shrink, and that
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: we should know our place in society, which is to
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: be behind in the shadows in the corner, doing all
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the labor, but quietly and stuffing through it quietly. And
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I think it does say that. It just showed that
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  Speaker 1: a lot. And then when we start being recognized or
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: being seen or wanting to be seen or wanting to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: be recognized. It feels like blasphemy, how dare you? But
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: within our own souls because once again, this is the
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: opposite of being what we were taught as women in
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the society. That's a bigger conversation though it is, But
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely one of the reasons I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this because I do think like being too much,
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  Speaker 1: we like we can't even express our needs are wants
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: because that's too much, but they could be basic things.
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  Speaker 1: We've just been so conditioned to do this and so
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: conditioned through our experiences and through society, through um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: being women. Of if I am too much in whatever
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: way I think that is, if I'm too loud or
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: talk to you about my Star Wars love too much,
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  Speaker 1: you're just going to write me off because that's that's
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: You're not worth the effort. So I think there's a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: lot we could unpack with this, and I'm sure we
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: probably will. And and sheres too, and I hope you
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: can tell us what you are going through and how
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you are doing, because I have a feeling we're not
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: alone in this new concept of trying to socialize. Again.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Some parties set us move love. It's so true though,
• 17:03
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