Finally! I can dust off that mole joke I’ve been sitting on since 3rd grade!

Oh, God, YES. Have Charles buttonhole him for HOURS talking Dump’s ear off while frogmarching him around the most boring estate they own.

Trump strikes me as someone who desperately wants upper class approval. The queen conspicuously ignoring him might be more painful to him than a kick. He might even get off on a kick....never know with him.

Ugh, we don’t want him, but we certainly don’t want to you to have to deal with him.

Thanks! I have to keep reminding myself I’m doing a lot more for them than my parents were able to do for my sister and I.

Ugh... as parent to a 7 year old (and several more that are younger) I have to constantly remind myself to chill out and give him a break when he does stuff like that. I don’t want him thinking something that innocuous caused my entire world to collapse just because I reacted that way...and it was all his fault and…

I just remind myself that everyone else very likely devotes as much time thinking about me as do I them. Makes it a lot easier to not really give a shit and move on.

I love how remembering one embarrassing moment suddenly unlocks a room in my brain filled with them.

I add my two cents to a group text, no one responds or even continues to post.

If you could somehow teach this and make it stick, you’d be like some sort of Psych Guru.

I apologize if this sounds snarky (please feel free to imagine me as a wrinkled, grouchy, dinosaur), but how fitting that this lovely bit of advice (which my fifteen-year-old self would have loved) comes from an editor at MTV News.

Shit, I do that with jokes that are well received too. “Were they laughing just to make me feel better?” “Did I laugh too long?” “Did I let the joke go on too long?” “Do they think I only made it to get attention?” “Was that one person who laughed a little less than the others offended?” “Were they really offended by…

This is why Bridget Jones Diary is one of my favorites movies of all time.

MoonDANCE is Van the Man. Jeez. :)

Here’s a tip that’s served me well: Try to think of any instance of another person saying/doing something embarrassing in a social situation that’s stuck with you. You basically can’t! Now can anyone remember what you did? Almost certainly not!

I think that is a good one too! No one cares what I’ve done. I also like to go with that everyone is weird as hell so whatever I said probably wasn’t a big deal after all. Sometimes, I even believe it!

Harder said than done for the anxiety wracked amongst us, but a good goal to work for. Another technique I’ve picked up over the years is to remind myself that people spend 99% of the time thinking of themselves and not thinking about a minor stupidity that an acquaintance said.

I really fucking need this and deeply fear that I will never get it to work so easily. I can probably swing seven seconds, if I do it 486 times per day. But I am so guilty of this and I will try this out! It is so exhausting to be held hostage inside your own head all day everyday worried that everything you have…

Radical acceptance when you’ve fucked up socially is one of the hardest but most important things to learn, especially when you have this tendency to ruminate on what you’ve done and how everyone probably hates you for it.