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Renfield ([personal profile] darchildre) wrote2012-06-25 12:21 pm

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Dear Coworker,

I'm really happy that you liked Anansi Boys and I'm glad that we have an author we like in common but I tried reading that one a couple of times and I really can't. I appreciate that you liked the audiobook and I thank you for the recommendation but that book hit my embarrassment squick immensely hard in the way that is pretty much the worst for me (embarrassment-via-mistaken-identity is a thing that I just cannot deal with in the slightest degree) and listening to it would be worse than reading. See, if I'm reading a book, I can skim or skip things and those are impossible with a recording of a book I haven't read. So, y'know, thank you but I'm not going to read or listen to that and I really wish you would stop trying to get me to.

Explaining an embarrassment squick to people who don't have an embarrassment squick is really hard sometimes.
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[personal profile] maharetr 2012-06-25 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god. I offer you a little fistbump of solidarity. I also have an embarrassment squick, mine based around people being disappointed, and it's *horrible* when it crops up as joke punchlines and everyone else is laughing and I'm abruptly trying not to cry. That one's also *really* hard to explain. /sensitive soul.

So, yeah. I hear you! <3