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Cake day: March 8th, 2025

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  • May I comment on the wording I gave eye contact? Makes me feel like it is a duty, and we are expected to meet a quota of it by giving it up.

    Anyway, I get these mixed feelings about praise. On one hand we wish to be seen, socially recognised and acknowledged for our accomplishments however it might come at a cost of expectations on us: it forces us to react, to speak up and adhere to other social standards. Perhaps even worse if we dealt with abusive people in the past and we cannot shake this feeling that it might not be genuine and it takes effort to parse it through our sarcasm detector.