• Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Does this happen? I think I’ve only experienced something close to this in high school, but never as an adult. Normally, people around me are either supportive or indifferent about someone learning new skills.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, it does, especially when it’s something people think is weird. I am a guy in my 20’s and recently started learning to knit and I still have people telling me not to do it because it’s weird. You just have to do what you want to do and give 0 fucks about what others think

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        1 year ago

        Knit your heart out man! I’m a guy in his 40s who always wanted to get a physics degree. So I’ve bought a bunch of textbooks. Still at the beginning and learning calculus.

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      1 year ago

      People hate on stuff all the time. How many people do you know who have made a derisive joke about people who hang truck nuts or something similar?

      Yucking others’ yum is an incredibly common occurrence.

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      Sure, people are gonna be supportive, but there’s definitely a peer pressure along the lines of “but how is it gonna make you rich or famous” in way too many fields.

    • Xero@lemmy.world
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      when does it not happen? as long as you don’t enjoy the same thing as other people, they will judge you