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When your voice not being heard

Mac78321

Have you ever had those moments when your voice isn't heard? 

Whenever I'm talking to someone, and they know I'm talking to them, sometimes they will cut me off or talk over me. Or they will turn to talk to someone else when I'm in mid-sentence. 

Another time, I'm talking about something very important, and other people don't take it in, 

Whenever I tell a joke or something funny, some people take it seriously or vice versa. When I talk about something important, some people will take it as a joke. Or when I give someone an answer to a question, and they don't believe me, and then when someone else says the same things that I said, the person believes them, 

Has anyone ever been in those types of situations? 

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  • Mac78321 said:
    Whenever I'm talking to someone, and they know I'm talking to them, sometimes they will cut me off or talk over me. Or they will turn to talk to someone else when I'm in mid-sentence. 

    I recently was puzzled / surprised to have experienced this too (not something which I would say I have experienced before).

    A few minutes later, an overheard a comment by another person with whom they were in conversation - which made it obvious it had been a chosen tactic - as they were both hoping I would have become sufficiently uncomfortable about the situation as to have got up and moved to another table (so this other person could take my seat at the table).

    For context: I had been the very first person sat at the table, by myself for a while, when a few of them had arrived late to the event (thinking they could intimidate / bounce me elsewhere and thereby take over the entire table). 

    Such juvenile behaviour from fully grown adults was illuminating and unimpressive.  (Noted, ready for future potential encounters with that clique at other such local events).

    I didn't waste my effort / energy on promoting any further social chitchat with them after that display of their values and worth. 

    I remained seated exactly where I had been all along and patiently awaited the formal start of the event (as I did not want to reward their nonsense and thereby encourage their redeployment of that floor show on some other unsuspecting soul in the future).

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  • Mac78321 said:
    Whenever I'm talking to someone, and they know I'm talking to them, sometimes they will cut me off or talk over me. Or they will turn to talk to someone else when I'm in mid-sentence. 

    I recently was puzzled / surprised to have experienced this too (not something which I would say I have experienced before).

    A few minutes later, an overheard a comment by another person with whom they were in conversation - which made it obvious it had been a chosen tactic - as they were both hoping I would have become sufficiently uncomfortable about the situation as to have got up and moved to another table (so this other person could take my seat at the table).

    For context: I had been the very first person sat at the table, by myself for a while, when a few of them had arrived late to the event (thinking they could intimidate / bounce me elsewhere and thereby take over the entire table). 

    Such juvenile behaviour from fully grown adults was illuminating and unimpressive.  (Noted, ready for future potential encounters with that clique at other such local events).

    I didn't waste my effort / energy on promoting any further social chitchat with them after that display of their values and worth. 

    I remained seated exactly where I had been all along and patiently awaited the formal start of the event (as I did not want to reward their nonsense and thereby encourage their redeployment of that floor show on some other unsuspecting soul in the future).

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