Kid: I don’t care about ordinary people Same kid: immediately cries at reaction of ordinary people
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Anon is Haruhi Suzumiya ...
Flashback to a kid in my class who ruined his entire highschool time by saying "my name is [name] and I breed rabbits" during the first 10 minutes of school.
Man, kids at your school were fucking stupid. That kid had shittons of rabbits that needed petting.
Villain arc anlocked.
I absolutely hate those "let's go around the circle and introduce ourselves" exercises. Making children do them seems especially cruel.
One could say it's healthy for a growing child to occasionally be put in awkward situations where they have to define themselves. It's not fun but it helps shape personality.
I'm 44 and I used to hate those too. But there is one fun fact about these. If you go first, you can fill it in as you want and every one will follow your format. Quite funny once you notice this.
Anyway next time I have one of those, I'll make sure to add "favorite dinosaur" to it.
Don't you think it's good to train children to be able to talk to strangers, in public and introduce themselves? I know it's stressful but I think it is useful.
It's not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.
If you were encouraged and made to practice in private before, then I would agree with you. But there is no "training" in this, it's just, either you can already do it or you can't.
It would be possible to coach kids about what to say in such situations, make them prepare and practice in private, let the teacher hear the introduction before anyone else, give feedback, and then put them in front of the class. And afterwards, talk about how it went, what went well, what to improve. Does any of this happen? If no, then it's no training.
It’s not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.
Aren't you exaggerating a little? Kids get to know each other better with time too.
Agreed with doing it with guidance and feedback.
It'd just be a lot less horrible if you don't have to come up with something to say about yourself. Kids are RUTHLESS and if you're not quick on your feet, or even if you are, but the thing you say can be taken wrong, you will be bullied for the rest of your time in school over it. Unless you luck out and someone else's thing is even worse.
That's just not how people introduce themselves out in the real world though.
work is the real world and i have some news
The problem is the lack of structure.
I organize a lot of workshops involving people from experts to executives, where you always need an introduction round, and I give them a structure to follow. Makes the task it easier, but it’ll also be much more useful for the group, as we’ll focus in the aspects of a person that matter for the context of the workshop.
For a class intro in primary school, it could be:
- name and age
- nickname you’d like others to call you
- favorite subject
- favorite hobby / free time activity
I just made this up, but a teacher could probably come up with something even more fitting.
The point is, always give people structure or guidance, you’ll get much more out of similar introduction rounds.
Sure but in the real world you will sometimes get this and sometimes get no structure. It's been about 50/50 for me so far. Being able to do either on the fly is good.
Someone in our new partner team has scheduled a meeting for 11am today for us to introduce ourselves to each other.
Guess how it's going to be structured
You throw a ball at each other and whoever holds it needs to introduce themselves?
I'm so sorry.
What do you think is different compared to when you join some new company, training or club and you are asked to present yourself to the group?
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Introducing yourself to others is like the basis of all socialization. 🤔
Introducing yourself to others is normal. Speaking infront of a group is not. Both can bring out social anxiety but public speaking is different than socializing with a small group.
Speaking a few sentences in front a classroom sized group is pretty normal and kids should be exposed to it. Uncomfortable experiences are a part of growing up.
Of course. But as the first thing overall with no prior training about it at all? No coaching about examples on what to say, no advice about your choices before the real thing?
What training should they need?
I'd say learning to talk is all they really need. The rest is experience.
So as soon as you learn to talk, you can handle every social situation adequately? That's news to me.
You may not understand this particular issue, because you never had trouble introducing yourself publicly. But you probably struggled at something else, and don't you think training would have (or did) help you there? So obviously it would also help people, who do exist, that struggle with public introductions of themselves.
its a few sentences about yourself you dont need coaching. People should have done this countless times before getting to Anon's age. If he still needs coaching at his age he probably has a learning disorder and I dont mean that in a rude way.
How do you know how old anon is? And anyway, we're not talking about anon here, we're talking about kids.
Both are very important. Not being able to speak in front of a group can change the trajectory of your entire life. Children especially should have as many paths open as possible for when they're ready to decide which one to take.
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Is it cruel?
I don't agree, I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that's obviously going too far. But it is important to get kids used to socializing, human beings need other human beings ultimately.
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I would've beat your ass that show sucks dick and you should feel bad
It really does, and disgraced anime for a long time and prevented it from becoming mainstream earlier
Anon was HONEST
Was he really? He cried right afterwards, showing how much he cares what ordinary people care about him.
That's just from psychological stress of delivering a presentation facing a room full of unfamiliar beings. He only interacts with aliens, time travellers and espers!
Upvote for the Haruhi reference cringe or not.
It's no better or worse than going with the usual Egon quote about collecting fungus, molds, and spores. That's how nerds find each other, one of them fires off a signal flare, revealing their location and putting themselves in danger, and other misfits sit next to them at lunch so they can all get hazed together.
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Would have been pretty funny (to those in the know) if he managed to do it with confidence. Shame.
Also damn, this Greentext is 10 years old. Doing this nowadays in highschool would definitely net you a room full of blank stares (best case) even if you don't botch the delivery.
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