Do you feel like you're talking to a wall?

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You're in class. You wanna say something, but no one pays attention. All they are freaking talking about is some guy is carrying a baby. I mean he's pregnant. i feel like I'm the only one here who doesn't care about pregnant men. I'm going to go insane. If I have to hear about this crap again, I'm going to go into a serious meltdown.

Arrrrgghh Don't you just hate it????? You tell them to shut up and they attack you.

I want to kill them so bad.

Wait... a man is pregnant?

Not really. Transgendered. He still has a uterus.

See. That's my problem. They spend the whole hour talking about it. It drives me crazy

I find it often difficult to get a word in edgewise, maby because I don't quite understand conversational etiquitte.

Hmmm, a man a baby and HE'S PREGNANT!

That's social etiquette?

Yeah, but you have to admit, it's pretty darn freaky.

I certainly know what chimchar is talking about. Even here on WP, the focus of the thread was IMMEDIATELY derailed.

The focus....you mean the man with a baby?

What about hormones? I mean, would his/her body still be able to create a baby after the adrogen treatment? Is the baby normal and healthy?

It's is freaky. I was a bit surprised at first, but now they spend all hours talking about it. It drives me nuts. I went into a complete meltdown and about to go into another one.

Why not walk away, claim you must do something right now and avoid the conversation? Since they obviously want to talk about it and they outvote you, you have little chance to change it. People just have different priorities and like different stuff. You could walk away to avoid them getting on your nerves. Or even better, single out one and pull them into conversation you think of as more interesting.

I couldn't do it, if I'm in a classroom. Which is loud, something I can't stand in a classroom. Yeah, they always do that. I don't know why. They are talking about something that isn't school-appropriate, and the teacher just sits there, possibly helpless. I almost smashed the school laptop because they won't shut up.

It's the way the NT world works. Start creating your strategies now, because it doesn't get any better with age.

In the middle of the lesson? Don't the teachers... teach? Sorry, I was the under impression that this happened when everybody was really free ta talk = free to walk away = free to do whatever they want to do.

Now, if that's the case I dare say there's nothing you can do about it. You could only try to keep yourself occupied with something more reasonable. Homework? And then ignore the bunch, as you cannot possibly miss out on something important if the teacher does nothing productive.

I've just learned to ignore (like, ignoring truly everybody, students, teachers, principal haha). Unless you can manage to stir the conversation away from this topic and towards another, I can't think of how to change this situation.

The alternative I know and the one which I have practising for years is, to interfere with something rude and ignorant enough to make everybody else speechless. A thesis that is so horrible that everybody will want to speak against it. But this way is not at all a good advice, unless you want to get on everybody's bad list or, even worse, get send to the principle's office. If you take it to extremes.

So, I'm voting for learning to ignore senseless chatter.

Or change the course of the conversation in a well behaved way. That's what I always did. But you must want to talk, get involved and then know exactly whose buttons to push and by how much to not give off an impression of rudeness.

No doubt, there's no easy answer to this issue.

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Last edited by IdahoRose on 10 Apr 2008, 6:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.