Special Snowflake Syndrome

Let us remember that Special Snowflakes exist in all forms, not just in the Gender/Sexuality sphere, and are a bane on social groups and work places in so many more interesting and detrimental ways than whether or not we share a bathroom.

Some of them don't even join any particular title to be special snowflakes.

I had a woman complain to me that I wasn't "training her right" and made all sorts of pointless remarks about her university, and young child, and demand that I give her different training more suited to what she imagined she needed.

(I gave her an opportunity to train in not having a job)

A more Generic Special Snowflake, but still some git demanding the world rearrange itself to suit their Picture.


*sigh* - Mental illness*, physical illness, injury, age, idiocy, dietary requirements (actual requirements please. Preferences don't mean much to me) These are all actual burdens people have. Everyone has some bloody cross to bear, and it generally gets bigger, heavier, and wonkier-shaped as you go along - It's called life.
You need to decide how much of an actual impediment of your ability to live is caused by what makes you "special" (as in, survive, not in your fantasy world, but in everyone else's world), and then YOU come up with the solutions to not be a burden on those around you.

I've got a dud knee.
I'm considering sending Usain Bolt a stern letter telling him off for FLAUNTING his running on international TV all the time.
Does he have any idea how much that hurts me? How not recognising my inability to be something I'm not is a personal attack on me and my rights?

(No, he doesn't, because that situation is absurd, much like a lot of the other Snowflake carrying-on)

*Speaking of Mental Illness, and people quoting the DSM,
Caffeine Withdrawal is damn close to a mental illness in that document.
I am so damned DESPERATELY wanting to call into work one day and say I can't come in, no coffee - then sue them if they ignore or make light of my legitimate mental illness



EDIT: Oh right, I forgot to blame social media -
This all gets out of hand because instead of working in sensible social units that sort of "self moderate" when someones gets a bit precious - everyone goes home, jumps online, seeks out like minded snowflakes, and work themselves into some mob-think tizzy, rarely, I suspect, to anyone's benefit, least of all their own.

What do they call it when the "bad dudes" do it? Self-Radicalisation?

hahaahhahha :woohoo:

:laugh: :silly: :lol:

Another Vanity to be mindful of when remaining vigilant against becoming a Special Snowflake (This particularly applies to able bodied, mentally healthy, middle class white folk such as myself) is Me-Too-Itis.

If indeed it turns out you're *not* special in any of the currently popular ways, you can be at risk of falsely identifying just to be part of a special group.

Lesbians who exclusively date men (but who I am to define what is or is not "lesbian"...)

Doctors are no aid in this area, when they'll tell someone who's afraid of heights they have "vertical distance from ground related anxiety disorder" and prescribe them some bloody medication or visits to a therapist.

(Alternate James Sand Solution: Don't get a job as a roof tiler, and you'll probably get through life fine)