I just wanted to say THANK YOU. We all have moments like these that play through our heads in quiet moments, but still somehow manage to convince ourselves that we’re the only ones. This helped me to remember it’s not just me.
👋🏻 I have trichotillomania and eat the follicle. I’m 35 and while I’ve tried to stop 10000000000 million times, I cannot. I’ve accepted it as a part of me and I love my fun wigs.
My most embarrassing story was in the 6th grade, my classmates played “keep away” with my wig. I’m still tallying up my therapy bill to send to them.
Thank you for sharing your story. It makes the world more human and lovable.
One of my worst flashbacks is trich-related… Also bled through my khakis in 8th grade, but the best part was that I had no idea I’d done that, AND I (extremely uncharacteristically!) was writing all over the Latin chalkboard before class started. In an otherwise empty classroom except my crush was there??
My classmate (and friend) rushed to help me when she walked in.
Another memory: telling two different crushes in college that I liked them. The first one (a dick, whose future girlfriend plastered a poster of his face all over campus the next year after he cheated on her), said: “You’d be embarrassed if you knew how long I’d known that.”
The second one said: “I like you too!” and I said: “REALLY?!” and he said: “WAIT NO NOT IN THAT WAY.”
Love this! SO true to life. Turns out the mean "friends" and their siblings are the ones who should be embarrassed. Period shorts at Six Flags hurts my soul! VERY relatable. :)
Thank you for giving all of these hilarious encounters the space they needed. What a great way to evict the squatters! I am going to do the same for the embarrassments that have been living rent free in my head!
What is the emotion where you laugh, wince and totally empathise all at the same time? This is how I felt reading this! I only wish you’d done drawings for all of them! And by the way it would be interesting to check a few years down the line to see if the ones you drew weigh less heavy on you, i.e. if drawing helped you process the emotional load. Or maybe writing them all down was enough to let go of all of them just like that? Please tell us how you feel now!
Oh man, I thoroughly enjoyed this recap! I have so many similar ones from childhood, stumbling about in my career, and attempting to navigate the weirdness of being a person. Thank you for unburdening yourself!
love this exorcism
I just wanted to say THANK YOU. We all have moments like these that play through our heads in quiet moments, but still somehow manage to convince ourselves that we’re the only ones. This helped me to remember it’s not just me.
glad to hear I'm not the only one who has arrive at class late and fresh off a big sob!
👋🏻 I have trichotillomania and eat the follicle. I’m 35 and while I’ve tried to stop 10000000000 million times, I cannot. I’ve accepted it as a part of me and I love my fun wigs.
My most embarrassing story was in the 6th grade, my classmates played “keep away” with my wig. I’m still tallying up my therapy bill to send to them.
Thank you for sharing your story. It makes the world more human and lovable.
One of my worst flashbacks is trich-related… Also bled through my khakis in 8th grade, but the best part was that I had no idea I’d done that, AND I (extremely uncharacteristically!) was writing all over the Latin chalkboard before class started. In an otherwise empty classroom except my crush was there??
My classmate (and friend) rushed to help me when she walked in.
Another memory: telling two different crushes in college that I liked them. The first one (a dick, whose future girlfriend plastered a poster of his face all over campus the next year after he cheated on her), said: “You’d be embarrassed if you knew how long I’d known that.”
The second one said: “I like you too!” and I said: “REALLY?!” and he said: “WAIT NO NOT IN THAT WAY.”
Love this! SO true to life. Turns out the mean "friends" and their siblings are the ones who should be embarrassed. Period shorts at Six Flags hurts my soul! VERY relatable. :)
i don't know why but bringing jack to meet the artist got me the most, lol <3
Totally agree!
You are not alone! Also please let us know if this exorcism method works!
I love this. Thank you. Let it be gone!
Thank you for giving all of these hilarious encounters the space they needed. What a great way to evict the squatters! I am going to do the same for the embarrassments that have been living rent free in my head!
What is the emotion where you laugh, wince and totally empathise all at the same time? This is how I felt reading this! I only wish you’d done drawings for all of them! And by the way it would be interesting to check a few years down the line to see if the ones you drew weigh less heavy on you, i.e. if drawing helped you process the emotional load. Or maybe writing them all down was enough to let go of all of them just like that? Please tell us how you feel now!
These are so silly, but so relatable in some way haha. I’m motivated to write my own list because I know I have many.
I have my own version of all of these! 👯♀️
I found this email just after I had talked myself out of being embarrassed about something (again). Needed this. Thank you.
Oh man, I thoroughly enjoyed this recap! I have so many similar ones from childhood, stumbling about in my career, and attempting to navigate the weirdness of being a person. Thank you for unburdening yourself!
Yes yes YES!!! Get em out!! This is such a great piece of writing and a great exercise for anyone to do ❤️