Don't ask me how my day was.

[Imperator161]

"Do you know what you want to do after you graduate?"

No, I don't ♥♥♥♥ing know. My parents ask me this every now and then. Even some of my classmates and professors ask me this. I get that they're curious because I'm on my last semester of college (which is almost over, though there is still field camp) and they wanna help, but I'd really wish they'd just stop. You'll get the same answer every time: I. Don't. Know. I don't have any dreams, and I'm not really interested in much. I'll just take whatever job I can get. I've been winging it my enitre life; don't feel the need to change that.

This, to a degree. In my case, I know what I want to do longer-term (so I guess that's a little different than your situation), but I don't have a job lined up yet, and I need to do something for a year or so while I apply to programs related to what I want to do. At this point, I feel like I get asked about ten times a day what I'm doing next year. If I didn't know yesterday, why are people so convinced that I'll suddenly have an answer today?

 

[Aeroblast]

When I say I'm from Korea, I get a lot of "Are you from North or South?" that just bugs me for some reason. I thought it'd be obvious, though I guess it depends on the perspective.

 

[Auticorn]

I can't stand today's slang phrases/words. Things I'm talking about are when someone says "That's retarded". The reason is because it puts down people with developmental disabilities. I'm not speaking for myself, but for my friends who are disabled, especially one of my best friends who is mentally-challenged. It just sounds as the when someone says something is retarded, they are referring it to something dumb or stupid, which also refers to someone who's also well... challenged in that way.

It comes from 'mental retardation', which is the medical term for an intellectual disability. When someone says something is retarded, it's almost as if they are comparing a disabled person to something they find dumb or stupid because of that factor. It's even worse when those people are like, "Oh, I don't mean for it to sound that way", and I'm like, "Then why even say it in the first place?"

 

[acatfrommars]

I work at McDonalds.

Question: How was was work today?

Response:

How do you think? -_-

 

[Livewire]

I don't think any one specific question bothers me that much, what really irritates me is when questions get repeated over and over again. That annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Trev]

There's no need to constantly holler, telling me to eat, and that I should eat more because I've lost weight.

This for days. I hate when people are telling me "you need to eat" like no, I will eat when I'm HUNGRY.

I have an outgoing and outlandish personality that I show frequently, and it incites people to ask me, "Are you gay?", which really annoys me because 1.) I'm not, 2.) it's not your business, 3.) it happens all the time, 4.) I've struggled with sexuality issues in the past and it feels like it's just making fun of everything I have to go through, 5.) it's a judgement passed based entirely on an outside aspect of my personality (my happiness!), 6.) I went through 10 years of bullying that I worked hard to escape from in which this was the primary insult, which makes me feel like progress that I think is happening has once again been set back, and 7.) it's just rude.

 

[Raine]

This for days. I hate when people are telling me "you need to eat" like no, I will eat when I'm HUNGRY.

I know ;; I have a certain eating schedule that I follow, and majority of the time, my parents know how it works, but then other times they'll be nagging me to eat another meal like 3 hours later after the last one >>;; They've never bothered my sister with it since she eats practically everything XD

 

[Arylett Charnoa]

What did you do today? It just makes me mad because I rarely ever do anything that you can see in the real world and it just makes me sound like a loser :)

Yeah, me too. I HATE questions like that. Seriously, why do you care anyway? Can we just can the stupid fake small talk and get to talking about things that are actually interesting? People only ask that question to be polite or because they don't know what else to say.

Besides, half of the things I do are so strange that I can't really explain them to a normal person. "Oh, what did you do today, Arylett?" "I spent most of the day writing a long blog on the internet about my various mental complexes and issues, comparing my relationship to video game characters, obsessing about my new favorite character of all time, and talking about how emotionally significant and traumatic I found playing the game Xenogears was." I can just imagine the look I'd get.

I also hate the question "How are you?" I don't know how I am! My mind is a swirling ball of chaos and I can't really quantify my emotional state with the short answer that you expect me to provide. I always respond to that question with "All right," so I can force them to move on from the topic, because there's not much to say to that.

And then there's the questions: "What do you want to do with your life?" Are you working or going to school?" "How is your job?" "What's your major?" "What are you planning to do in the next ten years?" "Do you want to have children?" First off, why do we have to look so ahead? I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not some all-seeing psychic or some person who plans everything so far in advance. I always have some awkward answer to that question. There's so many things I can think of that I can do with my life. Right now, I'm trying to focus on the present and just survive. The future comes later. As for the job situation, it's... a minimum wage job. What is there to say about it? I don't have it anymore, granted, so the answer to that question is now: "I don't have a job, I just go to school." And then people shut up. But still. I don't want to talk about work.

My absolute most hated one though: "Tell me about yourself?" That question is SO vague. What do you want to know about me? There are so many parts and complexities to a person (especially THIS person) that I cannot possibly answer that. Do you want to know my hobbies? My interests? My personality? My favorite color? Favorite animal? I can't just sum myself up in a neat little paragraph for you. Be specific. Other than that, I like being asked questions about myself though. As long as they pertain to things I am more interested in, like "What is your favorite Pokemon?"

Note: I hate most of the questions they ask in job interviews. And a lot of these are inspired from those. How could you possibly make a judgement on me based on these questions? They're just so stupid.

Also, I don't really believe in God. I try to avoid mentioning that because of these questions: "Do you have any morals? Why don't you believe in God?" People just seem so shocked, and can be unintentionally offensive too. Do I need an elaborate reason? It just doesn't make sense to me, that's all.

...Yeah, actually, most questions that people ask are really irritating. I wish they'd actually ask questions about things I wanted to answer. Ironically, if it were about less shallow and more personal deeper things, I'd probably give them good answers.

 

[Universe]

"Are you alright?" "What's the matter?" "What happened?"

I hate answering these when I'm clearly upset or angry. Because I mean obviously I'm not alright and usually if I haven't already told you what's got me upset I probably don't want to talk about it - which is 90% of the time. I'll just end up telling you that I'm fine and that I don't want to talk about it. :P

There's probably a lot of other things I don't like being asked but this is the main one.

 

[Xilfer]

"Are you alright?" "What's the matter?" "What happened?"

Pretty much this, except I look upset and mad even when I'm not. xD. Most of the time I just reply with 'I'm tired', which is often the actual truth, but it's perceived as an excuse because, you know, it's too simple. Why is it that when people see my default expression they automatically assume something's wrong? I mean, I guess I can get why they would be worried and all, since I really suck at hiding my emotions, but...

Oddly enough though, when there's something seriously wrong I just put it in the back of my mind and I don't appear that upset. (Well... not more than usual anyway) So in the end people are usually asking me these questions when I'm just tired and want to be left alone. (because conversation really tires me out already) And they don't when they're actually supposed to. I'm not blaming them, it's my own fault for never having the right damn expression, but... yeah.