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What is something that feels embarrassing to do, but shouldn't feel that way because there's nothing wrong with it?
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#1
Being overweight and going to the gym. I've actually stopped completely...I just work out at home. The stares and snickering was too much to deal with when I'm just trying to work out.
Final score:
274points
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#2
Going to a shop and walking out without buying anything
Final score:
238points
#3
Mispronouncing words, grammar mistakes, and word choice while learning a new language. It's way less tragic than it feels, and most native speakers butcher their own routinely.
Final score:
191points
#4
Admitting you have a severe depression and need to take medsand have therapy to not harm yourself.
(Was told I was "damaged goods" because of my illness)
Final score:
190points
Broken Angel 3 years ago
'damaged goods'?! i'll show them actual damage! that's awful and i hope you're ok!
#5
Being in a deadly silent bathroom where you know some of the other stalls are occupied and trying to quietly change pads without everyone knowing what your doing.
Final score:
182points
#6
Stretch marks. Body hair, or lack of it. Breast size. Penis size. Mental illness. Starting your life at 40 instead of 16. Niche interests. So many things....
Final score:
166points
Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago
If I was doing now what I was doing as 16, I'd be monumentally depressed. Nothing you've said here is something to be embarrassed about. I hope you find peace! You deserve it.
#7
Buying contraceptives and basically any other sexual wellness products in a physical store.
Final score:
152points
#8
Compliments, at least for me they feel embarrassing.
Final score:
147points
#9
Leaking on a period. Sure, it's annoying and uncomfortable, but it's not like it was a choice.
Final score:
135points
#10
Doing number two in a public washroom. The sounds are one reason why I choose home.
Final score:
132points
#11
Talking about money. I was invited on a girl's trip and had to say no because I couldn't come up with cash in the short amount of time needed to book the trip. My friend said that I embarrassed her by telling the other girls that I couldn't afford it.
Final score:
127points
Alyssa Sweat 3 years ago
NO ONE should make fun, judge, or criticize someone else for not having enough money.
#12
asking for help more than once in class
Final score:
116points
Alyssa Sweat 3 years ago
Why is this embarrassing? You are just wanting to understand the material, don't be ashamed to ask questions a lot.
#13
Being hungry at a friends house, or having your host offer you something and saying yes, WHY DOES IT SEEM SO SO RUDE AND EMBARASSING!? Haha
Final score:
109points
#14
Talking about feminine things in front of my dad. Example: periods , bras, pads ect
Final score:
105points
HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago
I talk about stuff like that with my dad all the time. He already knows about it, so its not that awkward, he did marry a woman lol
#15
enjoying ""childish"" things as an adult
Final score:
99points
lith (Submission author) 3 years ago
people can give others a hard time abt this too, i still feel embarrassed for enjoying animated things and i got a lot of grief abt it over the years but like its so dumb bc? its usually made by adults too lmao??? regardless tho it shouldnt be embarrassing idc
#16
Singing in front of other people. I know lots of other people do it, but it just makes me feel really exposed and awkward.
Final score:
94points
#17
Practicing any instrument you are learning at home around family. You don't know how to play very well which is why you need to learn and practice but you feel dumb struggling through easy songs with people that can hear you.
Final score:
88points
#18
Getting out of the pool Its just so awkward. and also when your crouching in the shallow end and someone goes "you could just stand ya know" LIKE YEA I KNOW IM JUST INSECURE.
Final score:
87points
HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago
Omg the last part is the most relatable thing ive ever seen. and when you swim in the shallow part and someone tells you you could walk but you just dont want people to see you lol
#19
Wanting to go home because you are done socializing. But if you say so, everyone is offended and it’s embarrassing, even though it barely has anything to do with them.
Final score:
84points
#20
Going to a sex shop. And generally everything with sex as a topic is seen as vulgar and a complete Taboo.
Final score:
79points
Maria Schneider 3 years ago
I (F) had the same problem - until a friend (F, too) really dragged me me into a sex shop. Simply to make me have a new experience. Found out I felt totally normal...
#21
When you have to run to catch the bus, you're out of breath, and you start breathing heavily on the bus. Idk why but this just seems to embarrassing to me.
Final score:
76points
Laura 3 years ago
Sometimes it happens to me at work. My boss is at the second level of our building and my office is on the ground floor. If I have to go to his office I run on the stairs (no elevator) and when I get there I am breathing very heavily and I feel like it's the only thing you can hear.
#23
Coming out.
I know it is a little embarassing but I swear I almost died of embarassment.
Final score:
70points
#24
Farting and burping.
Final score:
69points
#25
when a car is stopped to let you cross the street 🙈
Final score:
63points
Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
Try a smile and a small wave,will show your appreciation of drivers conduct..
#26
Opening a gift- expectations of my reaction.
Final score:
62points
#27
Having your period
Final score:
59points
HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago
Luckily I don't get awkward talking about my period. I used to talk about it with this guy at my school and complain about how annoying it was and how I was running out of feminine products that I liked and he was so weirded out and confused, it was great
#28
My false teeth. Since high school. I know there's nothing wrong but i still didn't tell to anybody
Final score:
58points
Personindaworld 3 years ago
Well, don't worry. Nobody will think it's weird, and if they do, then they are jerks.
#29
A giant zit on your cheek that make up won't even begin to cover.
Final score:
56points
HooowlAtTheMoon 3 years ago
Haha I hate makeup so I've learned to embrace my zits and if someone comments on them i smile and comment on theirs.
#30
When your talking to someone and they correct you because you got something wrong. Even if its just the pronounciation of a random word. I always feel so amshamed and I don't know why
Final score:
56points
Maria Schneider 3 years ago
I know that, too. For me, it's helpful to confess about my feelings in these moments - people instantly try to comfort me.
#32
puberty
Final score:
49points
Katherine Nicholson 3 years ago
Hey,It's natural to go through puberty.It is kinda strange though.
#33
Asking for the bathroom key at those gas stations that require one, especially when they take a really long time to get it.
Also, mentioning that I'm not ok. Whenever someone thinks im unhappy i get super embarrassed and it makes it all worse
Final score:
47points
#34
Asking for anything especially at restaurants
What do you think ?
Dori Smith 3 years ago
It broke my heart how many people said "periods" in this article. We need to normalize people with vaginas getting periods. Talk about it. Share when you're on yours. It's normal.
Eagle Girl 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing! But it's everything about the female body that isn't discussed from 1st period to last. Having a baby to raising kids. Like it's still 1950 and women are seen & not heard. Somehow every generation passes down the shame of what should be normal conversation
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Kate Jones 2 years ago
I think something that doesn't get talked about more is your bodily smell and the way it can make you feel if you think you don't smell good. You watch movies that show someone working out, and of course she/he gets 1 little sweat mark going down the front of their shirt but their hair and makeup is sill perfect. Characters come home from working all day or being at the gym and just start having sex/oral sex and no one is ever like 'I need a shower first'. No one ever gets up from a chair and leaves a sweat mark. No one ever tells you your vagina will occasionally smell bad for whatever reason and it's usually perfectly normal. No one tells you if you have bigger boobs that you might get a gross, wet rash under them almost all the time. No one tells you that you might have stained underwear because your vagina excretes stuff regularly when it's healthy. And you never see stained undies on tv/movies. Our mothers never talked about this stuff so you think something is wrong with you.
LagoonaBlueColleen 2 years ago
I get super embarrassed at the beach walking around in between everyone's little set up and finding there's a group of young women I have walk around to get to the boardwalk. For some reason they sneer and laugh at me. I don't get why. Like, just continue basting in the sun and ignore my elephant stomps as I try to wade through the hot sand.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
Simple bodily functions. Sweating, farting, having to use the bathroom. It's actually unhealthy not to, or trying to postpone
Isabelle Lamarque 2 years ago
Having an invisible illness.. I have chronic pain disease which affects my muscles and joints mostly. I get to go out 1 every two weeks approximately. It takes a lot of resting before and after and a lottt of painkillers often. I went to see Gabriel Iglesias Saturday and had a comfy blanket with me to cover the plastic chair. The looks on people's faces.. like a was a little entitled princess making her throne 🙄 eyerolls all over. Those days I would like to have a sticker on my forehead that says disabled. Or wave around my papers that proof it. 🤦🏻♀️ I try not to care about it but sometimes it is a bit hard
Bill Evs 2 years ago
Kind of like the restaurant one (and I don't know if this is UK specific) but going to the cinema alone. I've done it lots of times and personally couldn't care less but when I tell people most look aghast. I've never understood what the problem is with it, at the end of the day I'm just going to watch a movie I want to see. Everyone sits there in the dark in silence anyway (most of the time) so what's the issue?
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Last time i went to the cinema the girl was on her facebook nearly all the movie (that she chose) so yeah, def gonnna start going alone. Btw, said 'no thanks' to popcorn. Guess who had to shate his pop corn?
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Robert Hughes 3 years ago
I het rly embarrassed walking around woth my family for some reason. I also hate it when ppl are onto a song then I learn the lyrics and its not a thing anymore. I don't have any form of social media so i am always behind on things and its REALLY embarrassing.
Franc Esca 3 years ago
When people try to make you feel embarrassed cuz you don't have exes or you're not divorced by certain age. "Never married" they say like it's a bad thing.lol sorry I thought marriage was technically for life
Greta Denmark 2 years ago
This may be just me, but I hate when a colleague brings a baby or toddler to work. Everybody else goes ga-ga, but I just stand there. Bring in a dog or at cat on the other hand ...
Greta Denmark 2 years ago
So many saying period, but not one saying menopause. When you are dripping with sweat, all red-faced and your body feels like a 150 degrees, and everybody around you knows you have reached "that age".
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
I am a bit surprised that so many are about periods. I'm actually not embarrassed at all about periods. I never got why I should be. Not in public bathrooms and not if it happens during sex. To me it's just so obvious that since I can't control it or choose it it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I find it so sad that that's not the norm.
abby smink 2 years ago
Talking to someone about losing my fur baby of 17 years, before I know how they're going to react. I don't know if they'll empathize, or be one of those "it's just a dog" people.
Dori Smith 3 years ago
It broke my heart how many people said "periods" in this article. We need to normalize people with vaginas getting periods. Talk about it. Share when you're on yours. It's normal.
Eagle Girl 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing! But it's everything about the female body that isn't discussed from 1st period to last. Having a baby to raising kids. Like it's still 1950 and women are seen & not heard. Somehow every generation passes down the shame of what should be normal conversation
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 2 years ago
I think something that doesn't get talked about more is your bodily smell and the way it can make you feel if you think you don't smell good. You watch movies that show someone working out, and of course she/he gets 1 little sweat mark going down the front of their shirt but their hair and makeup is sill perfect. Characters come home from working all day or being at the gym and just start having sex/oral sex and no one is ever like 'I need a shower first'. No one ever gets up from a chair and leaves a sweat mark. No one ever tells you your vagina will occasionally smell bad for whatever reason and it's usually perfectly normal. No one tells you if you have bigger boobs that you might get a gross, wet rash under them almost all the time. No one tells you that you might have stained underwear because your vagina excretes stuff regularly when it's healthy. And you never see stained undies on tv/movies. Our mothers never talked about this stuff so you think something is wrong with you.
LagoonaBlueColleen 2 years ago
I get super embarrassed at the beach walking around in between everyone's little set up and finding there's a group of young women I have walk around to get to the boardwalk. For some reason they sneer and laugh at me. I don't get why. Like, just continue basting in the sun and ignore my elephant stomps as I try to wade through the hot sand.
Oerff On Tour 3 years ago
Simple bodily functions. Sweating, farting, having to use the bathroom. It's actually unhealthy not to, or trying to postpone
Isabelle Lamarque 2 years ago
Having an invisible illness.. I have chronic pain disease which affects my muscles and joints mostly. I get to go out 1 every two weeks approximately. It takes a lot of resting before and after and a lottt of painkillers often. I went to see Gabriel Iglesias Saturday and had a comfy blanket with me to cover the plastic chair. The looks on people's faces.. like a was a little entitled princess making her throne 🙄 eyerolls all over. Those days I would like to have a sticker on my forehead that says disabled. Or wave around my papers that proof it. 🤦🏻♀️ I try not to care about it but sometimes it is a bit hard
Bill Evs 2 years ago
Kind of like the restaurant one (and I don't know if this is UK specific) but going to the cinema alone. I've done it lots of times and personally couldn't care less but when I tell people most look aghast. I've never understood what the problem is with it, at the end of the day I'm just going to watch a movie I want to see. Everyone sits there in the dark in silence anyway (most of the time) so what's the issue?
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Last time i went to the cinema the girl was on her facebook nearly all the movie (that she chose) so yeah, def gonnna start going alone. Btw, said 'no thanks' to popcorn. Guess who had to shate his pop corn?
Load More Replies... Robert Hughes 3 years ago
I het rly embarrassed walking around woth my family for some reason. I also hate it when ppl are onto a song then I learn the lyrics and its not a thing anymore. I don't have any form of social media so i am always behind on things and its REALLY embarrassing.
Franc Esca 3 years ago
When people try to make you feel embarrassed cuz you don't have exes or you're not divorced by certain age. "Never married" they say like it's a bad thing.lol sorry I thought marriage was technically for life
Greta Denmark 2 years ago
This may be just me, but I hate when a colleague brings a baby or toddler to work. Everybody else goes ga-ga, but I just stand there. Bring in a dog or at cat on the other hand ...
Greta Denmark 2 years ago
So many saying period, but not one saying menopause. When you are dripping with sweat, all red-faced and your body feels like a 150 degrees, and everybody around you knows you have reached "that age".
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
I am a bit surprised that so many are about periods. I'm actually not embarrassed at all about periods. I never got why I should be. Not in public bathrooms and not if it happens during sex. To me it's just so obvious that since I can't control it or choose it it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I find it so sad that that's not the norm.
abby smink 2 years ago
Talking to someone about losing my fur baby of 17 years, before I know how they're going to react. I don't know if they'll empathize, or be one of those "it's just a dog" people.
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