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Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

What are some pet peeves or "berserk buttons" (to use a TV Trope term) a lot of people don't get?

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who (a) has a learning disability and (b) works as a tutor, the stereotype that any kid who doesn't get good grades is a worthless slacker. Not all learning disabilities are "obvious", and sometimes it's not even a learning disability, that subject just doesn't come to them easily. And a lot of acting out and "forgetting" they had homework and stuff is actually insecurity.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I struggled in school because I found certain subjects difficult. It's a little hard for me to read manga where the main character is repeatedly called stupid because they can't grasp a math concept. It's not funny to see panel after panel of a character struggling to solve a problem and not understanding why they can't get it and it's even worse when the genius stock character berates them for being stupid because they can't magically solve a problem after just one lesson.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[crossy_woad]

The usual, I guess. Every woman on TV is skinny. Glasses = nerd, get contacts = hot. @_@ And anything that mocks, psychoanalyzes, or stereotypes non-skinny people. The asshole dude that the cool woman falls for because he's just SO irresistible when he insults her constantly and can't do a damned thing. Every friendship (if m/f) becomes sexual. Every friendship (if m/m) doesn't. The usual, you know.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[diet_poison]

The asshole dude that the cool woman falls for because he's just SO irresistible when he insults her constantly and can't do a damned thing.

seriously!!! but the main male character always gets a hot chick. Always.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Glasses = nerd,

I don't know where that trope even comes from. In kid/teen stuff especially, it's treated as a fate worse than death when half the kids I knew wore glasses, including popular ones and certainly not just the nerds...

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[ginainthekingsroad]

How ancient and medieval warfare works; or, Your Shield Is Important & Not Just There To Look Pretty.

I was watching The Hollow Crown and its Henry IV Part 1. And I got really excited for a minute because Hal and Hotspur initially came at each other and were fighting with their shields. And then the acknowledge each other in the text, ooh, dramatic, and they fucking both toss their shields away to ~fight more intensely~. Goddammit.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

I know nothing about fighting, medieval or otherwise, and it seems like someone coming at you with a sword is definitely not the time to throw your shield unless it maybe has a razor-sharp edge and you're hoping to decapitate your enemy with it or something.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to guess this comes down mostly to fictional honour and drama tropes. As in, it's 'cowardly' to hide behind a defense rather than straight attacking, particularly in a climactic duel or what have you, and also it's 'cheating' and/or 'dishonourable' to, say, bash somebody in the face with your shield rather than duelling nobly with swords.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Lateness, and I'm saying that as someone for whom it is not a berserk button. Of course you get angry at someone whose lateness causes actual, material inconvenience; the people I don't get are the ones who foam at the mouth because The Selfishness! The Disrespect! There Is No Excuse!!

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

If I've gone out of my way to finish up what I'm doing and be on time because I want to be there when my friend gets there, then I think I've earned the same in return.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

It's not being late that's the disrespect, it's not having the fucking courtesy to call or text and say you're running late. That's some rank shit right there.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

what I can't stand is lateness where the person is an hour late and does not bother offering any sort of an excuse or even an apology.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Misophonia.

I feel like if you don't have it it's hard to really comprehend how bad it can be when it's 'just' an annoying sound. Also one of the shows I watch I think one of the people on it might have an asmr to sucking/smacking/slurping sounds because they feature a lot, and they're horrible.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[diet_poison]

I don't have misophonia (unless you count a reaction to one very particular and specific sound but I don't think it's the sound itself because if I hear something that sounds the same but I know has a different origin it doesn't bother me). But one of my best friends has it, my sister has it and I think my dad does too if more mildly. They all have issues with hearing other people eat. I may not understand their exact reaction but why would I want to cause someone an unpleasant experience? I just try not to crunch my food around them

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who believes misophonia doesn't exist should be forced to eat their delicious breakfast next to the guy who aggressively sucks back his snot all day long.

Okay, maybe not everyone. Just the ones who are jerks about it.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, this. Don't make horrible, grating noises and then get offended when I wince, ya fuckheads.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

I know this feel far too well...to the point I had a nervous fucking breakdown over snoring after pitching a fit for everyone in this house to stop fucking snoring so I could fucking sleep. Ugh, Misophonia sucks.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

I used to work with a guy who made horrible slurping sounds when he ate, no matter what he was eating. Some of us used to call him the zombie because of this.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh. Yeah, the security guard where I work is a nice old guy, but he eats like the stereotype of an old guy, with lots of loud chewing and slurping and smacking. Does not help that he eats stinky food a lot, too.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[cakemage]

Agreed so hard. I can't even be in the room when my cats and dogs groom themselves, 'cause the licking/smacking sound is like nails on a fucking chalkboard and it makes me want to claw my own face off just to distract myself from the sound. And don't even get me started on my aunt, who is deaf/aphasic and was never taught how to chew with her mouth closed. I spend most of her visits with earbuds in and the music on full-blast.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[kaijinscendre]

I got a lot of work ones. Like people not breaking down boxes. Or people not putting shit back where it goes. Or when my tape gun runs out of tape. That pisses me off so much.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[diet_poison]

Dude

so I work at a different place Monday than the rest of the week, and my co-worker who I really do not like works at my normal place on Monday. I swear when I come in on Tuesday sometimes there is such a mess. failing to do routine maintenance, leaving tools in water so they rust instead of actually cleaning them, leaving messes, etc.

gaaaaaaah

she has been doing this job longer than me - she should know better!!!!

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[diet_poison]

I hate being touched in a lot of contexts and I hate being startled. Some people think it's funny to hide behind the door, sneak up behind you etc. I cannot fucking STAND it. And I think a lot of people don't get why that's the case. It makes me jump ten miles with a huge adrenaline rush that makes me angry and then I get super embarrassed and that just makes me more angry, and it's like red-hot rage.

Being touched without the sneaking up part doesn't make me that angry that fast but it does really get on my nerves.

Re: Hang-ups most people don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Not really a mental one, but I'm short. And I have numerous friends/relatives who think of themselves as short but they're still taller than me and they just can't grasp that if they can do something despite being short that it doesn't automatically follow that I can do it too.

Like trying to get me to buy a showerhead that has adjustment button things on the head itself. (I stood in the bathtub and showed them that I was about 3 inches from being able to touch the showerhead and unless I wanted to keep a step stool in the bath it wouldn't do me any good) Or placing whiteboards and calenders on the wall behind tables/desks where they can reach out and write on them, but I can't.