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karmgirl | 11:20 Tue 21st Oct 2008 | Body & Soul
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with yourself, expressing your opinions, standing up for yourself, being confident etc?
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Apologies I didn't mean it in a nasty way - just that why worry, you're a long time dead. I took things far too seriously in a previous life and now I don't care too much. ......oh that's not true hun but you know what I mean
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Its ok scotgal, I know you didn't mean it in a bad way, just wasn't sure what it meant exactly.

Thanks roosi, my boss referred to me as 'she' so then my colleague said 'she's got a name' and my boss said 'her, the cats mother' so it was used in that context, so thats not rude I gather then thats ok

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I have always had a lot of confidence, I am very articulate, and I think very quickly.

TThat said, that facility was a bit like having a garden hose with too much pressure - i could quirt my verbosity this way and that, but had very little control over it.

I have found with each year that passes, my comfort at who and what i am grows, and with it an inbuilt self-confidence which I know radiates from me, and allows me to control almost all social interaction.

With age comes the wisdom to know that being able to control a conversation does not mean it is always polite, appropriate, or even desireable so to do, and that is a vitally important difference in me at fifty-three, compared with me at seventeen.
Oh andy you're soooooooooooo up yerselllllllll!
Yeah, sounds like she was sticking up for you Karmgirl as your boss had overstepped the mark making that comment - try not to be so easily upset! Too sensitive, just like me!!! ;-)

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For me it's never been an age thing, but a situation thing.

Feeling I've got people round who I know are aware of the points being discussed helps, even if they disagree with me, because I don't then feel like I have to go into superfluous background stuff and distract myself.

With experience I get to look back on stuff I've done and use it to back me up when I'm trying to bring home a point, so I suppose that means I'll be ancient before I actually get quite good at debating.

I always found that I leaned, as a child, towards adults who wouldn�t dismiss my points of view on sight as it were. Sounds obvious I suppose. Luckily, I was surrounded by them and I think that�s why I�m not wary of putting my view across. I�m not scared that I�ll be immediately rejected if I have a differing view. I suppose if I�d been surrounded by different people, I�d never open my mouth now (not even my virtual one).
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At a very young age karmgirl. We were taught to have confidence, and to offer our opinions at home - then school.
I have to go to bed now anyway - so goodnight to you all on here. x
I had far more to say myself 20y ago and was confident I was right. I now see I wasn't. I also learned that talking to much and controlling a conversation meant I never heard nor learned anothers opinion or knew much of them.

I now prefer to 'zip it' and listen to others.....'cause there's always gonna be a laugh between friends, that's the fruit of life.
Although life has not improved with age my confidence does, so the answer is whatever age I am now. You learn a little more about how to handle life and people all the time.

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