The joke lands before anyone else can turn the moment into a judgment. Making the comment yourself lets you control the tone, even when the thing underneath it still feels tender.
- calling yourself a disaster while searching for your keys in front of friends
- making a joke about your brain before admitting you missed a deadline
- introducing a messy desk as 'the natural habitat of chaos' when someone walks in
- laughing at yourself for asking someone to repeat their name
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
Just a naturally funny and humble person.
This is a carefully deployed defense mechanism to control the narrative.
They don't take themselves too seriously.
I take my struggles very seriously; this is how I make them less scary for others.
So confident and at ease with their flaws.
I'm terrified you'll judge me for this, so I'm pointing it out first.
Just being quirky and relatable.
I'm proactively lowering your expectations so I don't disappoint you.
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