Would you like you, if you met you?

[Just01]

I dont think I'd like to be friends with myself,I'm too intense,too dominating,untrusting in new people, too emotional, too try hard.
I dont like all these things in other people and cabt change that I'm like this,its surprised me somewhat thinking I dont actually like who I am.

I think I'd like me. I'm quite direct, funny and kind. I have a slight tendency to think the world revolves around me, but I'd call me out on it and we'd laugh together about what an arsehole I am. I'm a nice mix of lovely with some dickhead thrown in - nobody wants a perfect friend.

No, I’m a gobshite.

I try not to be, but I am. Can’t stop trying to be funny.

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@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

Ever hear the quote 'Honesty without kindness is cruelty'?

Oh I'm definetly kind.

Wouldn't get a chance to find out - she'd be too aloof.

And if I did get to know her better I'd feel a bit sorry for her - one of those people with "a brilliant future behind her". Inclined to drawling carelessly about being downwardly mobile, accompanied by a brittle laugh.

I'd envy her wardrobe though ...

I would like me.

I would cos I am ace. Every day I fall in love with my reflection.

Yes. I’m friendly and funny and would make you feel at ease.

It wouldn’t last long though. I’m shit at making and maintaining friendships, I honestly have no idea how to do it.

No, for all the reasons you wrote in your OP

Yeah Id like me coz I'm very blunt and straight to the point and no I wouldn't like me coz sometimes that bluntness should be kept inside 😂

Yeah, I'd get a crush on myself but it would wear off really quickly..

No i don't think I would. I'm not my true self around people. I have quite a serious face, am quite socially anxious and not very confident,. I hate confrontation so just nod and agree with everyone all the time.

Probably. I'm honest and loyal. But...I have quite a dark sense of humour, and can be very pedantic.

I'd probably be best freinds with myself if we had the chance to get to know eachother.. I'm pretty closed off and weird but I'm nice underneath all that. Although I'm not for everyone, but if it was me getting to know me, then of course wed be similar so yes we'd be friends

@CluelessBaker

People can be pretty nasty on Reddit (and on Mumsnet)

I can’t speak to any threads about @GinDaddyRedux because I haven’t seen them, but generally reddit is a much less nasty place by far than mumsnet

This. Reddit is a lovely place compared to Mumsnet!

Probably not :(

I don't see why not, but I've heard before that those who are too similar tend to get on each other's nerves, the whole 'thing you find most irritating about others is most likely an irritating part of yourself' thing.

I’m not sure we’d ever get to know each other! Most of my friends are more gregarious than I am.

I’m happy in my own company and also a bit sensitive about feeling welcome, so I’m easy to put off in the early days of acquaintance. Behind that I’m a genuine person who tries hard to do the right thing in life, including doing right by my friends, which I hope I’d appreciate

Yes, I think so. I am laid back, don't take life too seriously and like to have a good time. But, I'm also very loyal and generous and would give you the shirt off my back if you needed it. I have quite a large group of girlfriends, who I have been good friends with since school and university, and I've been a bridesmaid and godparent more times than I can remember, so I reckon I must be doing something right

Depends if I like the look and feel of you I guess !?

No, I suspect I'd see myself as competition.

I’d definitely like me if I got to know me but I’d be too cagey to let me get to know myself for a while so knowing the other me, I’d take that as a rejection and not bother.

No. Absolutely everyone misunderstands me. I'm no wizard at relationships so I imagine I wouldn't either.

Hmmm I’m not sure I’d know what to make of me. Full of contraditions, I am: opinionated but a doormat, anxious but laid back, ambitious but insecure.
I think I’d think I was a bit up myself to start with but warm up to me once I realised I am actually mynown worst critic.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say I have NO idea how I come across to people.

I have mediocre self esteem, am a bit shy and was always told to put every single person on the planet first before me, which I do, I've been taken advantage of a lot.

But then I've also been told I'm aloof and unapproachable so I try even more to be liked (not in a cringey, desperate way).

I would really, really love to meet myself and see where I am going wrong!