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ADVICE FROM A GIRLSâ GIRL: I have never had a straight, male friend in my life, but I make female friends very easily so I feel qualified lol. Compliments are key in female communication - theyâre almost used as a secondary greeting. You meet up with a friend and you compliment their outfit or bag or hair or whatever, and itâs not to objectify each other, but rather to take notice of their effort and set the tone for the conversation - friendly, low-judgement, light. Ofc the tone can change depending on topic of circumstance, but itâs like a mini-bonding moment that you recognize each other at the beginning of your interaction. Conversely, you have to accept the compliment in return, or at least not reject it entirely. Some women do playfully reject a compliment in a âfishingâ type way, but itâs all about tone. If you reject it and bring down the tone, itâs a signal to the other woman that youâre not interested in bonding - it can be intimidating, and a wall is put up. Itâs fine to be self-deprecating as long as you leave space for other women to lift you back up. Thatâs why the compliments online can get kind of out of hand - we all just want to build each other up, and we want our friends to build us up in return. Itâs definitely a bit of a performance, but itâs not insincere. You donât have to be bubbly to do this either. I wouldnât describe myself as overly positive or bubbly, in fact I think Iâm quite dry too, but I can turn it on to lift up my friends. And the only way to get good at this âcompliment communicationâ is to just do it. Any little thing you notice thatâs nice, just say it. Maybe itâs awkward at first, but if you work at it, itâll become easier. I think lots of recovering âpick-me girlsâ struggle with this bc itâs a learned social behavior from adolescence that you missed out on. So donât be too hard on yourself đ Youâre both interesting, funny people that Iâm sure can make friends easily once you get past that initial bond. Anyway, hope that helped. I feel like an anthropologist studying women and reporting my findings lmao
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The panties thing is definitely sexual harassment lol, imagine some man doing that to you now. As a girl watching this pod, I love these talks. It reminds me of talks you have with your female friends after you are grown up realizing all the fucked up shit you went through and never registered as not normal lmao (gr**ming, SA, sexism...). Is sad but we have all been there and is really reassuring to hear other girls' stories.
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this is legit a therapy podcast and i fuck with it. i actually dont have any female friends so getting to hear females talk about relationship with guys and seeing that maya and blair having completely different experiances is eye opening. you can kinda see why maya initial react to the dake situation in the last podcast was "oh of course he wants to do that, of course hes a guy and he want to sexualize me." because maya thought it was the default experiance for women. i just want to say thank you!!! you guys are really smart and emotionally aware. being able to dive into these topics with no notes and feed off each others ideas is how we live in a better world. thank you again.
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I do think Maya should be careful with the statement "I've worked with autistic kids since 2009" because it SO common for women with autism (that don't have high support needs) to not get diagnosed until adulthood. So even if you work with or interact with a lot of autistic children, you might not recognise autism in adult women because they just don't get the same diagnosis at a young age. As an recently diagnosed ADHD girlie I've been more sensitive to the fact that our neurodiversities often get missed out because we don't present with the same symptoms as (often) male children. And IF QT is autistic, of course she wouldn't present the same as an autistic child because she's an adult woman and has had more life experience to manage her symptoms or mask them.
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Regarding the autism spectrum:
I am an autistic woman and (god I donât mean this parasocially) Iâve wondered for a long time if QT is autistic. Itâs common for women to be diagnosed with 10 bajillion things (ocd, bipolar, borderline, add, adhd) and then come to find out all their symptoms were just signs of being on the autism spectrum, but because the diagnostics are so biased towards five year old boys, women, especially adult women, are diagnosed much less and also much differently.
A lot of what QT talks about being awkward and just social situations from her childhood I relate too, and in hindsight were signs that I was autistic. QT, if youâre wondering if youâre on the spectrum, my totally-professional-YouTube-comment-rando-opinion is that you should get it checked out by a psych or someone who deals in diagnosing those things. It can be expensive though so be aware of that.
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as a bi girl, i get feeling weird matching that energy of âstfu you are so hotâ because growing up i was always extra respectful because i didnât want to be âweird.â for instance in locker rooms i was always looking at girlsâ hairlines so my eyesight would be as far away from their bodies as possible.
so for me to feel comfortable giving that energy was hard because i was scared to seem like i was hitting on them or something? idk
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@thedevilssalad
1 year ago
My new favorite thing is hearing "audio listeners" and then watching what is actually happening.
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