• afraid_of_zombies2@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have never liked the term. I am also in a technical role and feel like if I say anything to a women at work I will be yelled at.

    Like okay I had to go to speech therapy for years the very fact that I can talk at all is a miracle of medical science. Any other time in human history I would be effectively mute. So now I am working with someone, I have to not only figure out the answer to their question I have to spend all this effort to get my mouth to move to say the answer and if I explain it even slightly wrong I am an awful person who deserves to have their life ruined.

    I don’t know what you don’t know. Sometimes I am not going to simplify my answer not enough sometimes I am going to simplify it too much. I am going to make a mistake and for that I am sorry.

    Frankly I do avoid it because I don’t want to be accused of something. If I don’t interact I can’t interact incorrectly.