Willful ignorance.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
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Mean-spiritedness and the inability to set and respect boundaries.
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Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
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How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
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