Special snowflake has lost all wit...

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I smiled the first time I read it for its apt usage.

Now it's 90% of the time being used as (weak) attempt to bully down opinion. Oh your child has a hint of non-conformity-well stop raising a special snowflake. Or you don't agree with me-SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE!

Even "boils my piss" never began to...well 'boil my piss' in over usage.

I guess though if this offends you, or that this is a thread about a thousand others, you are one in your books?

I don't disagree with strong opinion... But wit and humour never hurt if that's what you're actually aiming for...

Nobody is exactly the same, though Rhoda. We are all as individual as snowflakes, thus rendering the 'special' superfluous and the phrase, in actuality, meaningless. That doesn't mean to say we need to afford extra status to certain people. No entitlement need be involved.

It's like someone having a serious, intellectual argument then writing YOLO, Clopy.

It just doesn't work.

I once had a tshirt that said "I'm an individual, just like everybody else"

(I think I was about 15?)

I hate it, it makes me cringe.

Horrible phrase. It makes people who use it sound so bitter.

I think you've hit the nail on the head Elvira. It's the fact that it's a bitter little sneer that makes it so off-putting. It says nothing about the person or idea that it's supposedly directed at, but it does hint at - what? envy? a desire to keep someone in their imagined place? - on the part of the person saying it. "how dare you think you're worth any kind of consideration? don't you go getting uppity now!"

So I don't use it! Got a bit carried away there. As you were...

YAB very reasonable but the problem with wit and humour is that it is very subjective.

Especially when put in writing.

Yes the biscuit emoticon is stale @emotion

Bad-da-boom!

emotion, even.

I always read "special snowflake" in Kenneth William's voice

So, instead of Special Snowflake, how would you describe someone who thinks they are just a teeny little bit different from everyone else? Obviously everyone is different blah de blah, but I think the term is often rolled out when someone expects treatment or has preferences which aren't in the least out of the ordinary, but they believe them to be so (or of their dcs).

Rhoda I don't feel the need to describe them with a term. I might acknowledge they are only viewing situations from their own perspective and do not fully appreciate my own, if their behaviour is affecting me.

Nicely put, Rock.