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⌈ Secret Post #5294 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If your friend listens to you talk about stuff you're into that they aren't, then I think they deserve better from you. They probably aren't listening in rapt attention when you go on about your stuff either, but they let you talk because it feels good to talk to people we like about stuff we enjoy.

OTOH, if your friend shows little interest or patience for your stuff, then I guess it balances out. *shrug*

And I mean, if they're a one-track-mind type who wants to talk about their latest hyperfixation all. the. time. then okay, I definitely understand that you need mechanisms for shifting the conversation onto other topics. But if they just started watching a show, and they're bringing it up for the first time, I honestly think the good-friend thing to do is let them tell you about it. Not for an hour straight. But ten minutes is not some huge sacrifice.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to have a friend who permanently insisted on me watching/playing/reading the things she liked to the point of being extremely pushy about it, I'm the type of person who likes listening to other people talking about what they like cause you always learn a thing or two and it's nice, but in her case it was... non-stop, never ending, ALL the time, so past a certain point I was like "okay I don't think I'm getting around to it, can you spoil it for me?" and that sort of helped, but what made me end that relationship (among several worse things) is that she would NEVER listen to me talking about what I liked, and the few times I got things in she'd immediately find an excuse to dismiss it or just say "nah it's not my thing". One time she refused to read a fic I recced to her cause she "didn't like the sentence structure", so yeah. Sorry for the long vent, but some degree of give and take is really important in friendships so if your friend is nice enough to always listen to you talk then at the very least you can grant them some of that courtesy back. I've developed a really low tolerance for people like OP after this.