renaissance poisson

reading boring answers to puerile memes bores me, and i try not to do to others what i hate.

now you have me thinking back to high school. hm. i generally didn't mind speaking in front of my class. i went to a very good high school, in an accelerated track, and everybody was there to learn (we were very, very serious, *grin*; it's amusing in retrospect). for the most part we knew what each other knew, and presentations were interesting. i don't recall everyone having to recite the same poem -- but i didn't grok poetry, so any reciting i had to do, i didn't like anyway.

university was much harder, and the classes were large, and my dislike and fear of public speaking started then -- it has a lot to do with strangers, and not knowing what they already know, and fear of imposition. i was so bored sometimes when listening to others. but at least there was no more poetry.

i took acting classes to help make myself self shy, but for the most part that was a resounding failure. i couldn't even get myself to do some of the assignments that had to do with approaching strangers in public.

online the whole imposition fear mostly disappears because hey, people can scroll past my verbosity or click away.