Request How do I get over second-hand embarrassment!?

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  1. IamJustthisweirdreader

    IamJustthisweirdreader [hope you drop your phone in the toilet]

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    There is this manhwa i am reading called Pian Pian...and it's giving me so much second-hand embarrassment i managed to get past 23 chapters enduring the embarrassment but there is major second-hand embarrassment in chapter-24 and now i can't read it anymore but i still wanna read (╥﹏╥) i scrolled down to another panel and the second hand embarrassment just got even worse ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽

    Please tell me how do you guys get over your second-hand embarrassment and continue to read or watch the novel/manga/anime
    ( ꈨຶ ˙̫̮ ꈨຶ )


    Edit: i read all the comments and pushed through:blobhero:I can feel my skin becoming thicker:blobthinkingsmirk:
    But there are just too many misunderstanding in this damn manhwa....the MC think the ML doesn't like him and the ML think the MC doesn't like him...they both like each other and everybody knows it expect the MC and the ML:blobsleepless:

    Edit : and now i am on chapter 43...i need more advice:blob_teary:i can't..the second hand embarassment is too much again:blob_teary::blob_teary:i can feel my skin becoming thinner:blob_teary::blob_teary::blob_teary::blob_teary::blob_teary::blob_teary::bloborz:
     
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  2. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    is the embarrassment because the characters are too cringe or something?
    just stop reading~
     
  3. IamJustthisweirdreader

    IamJustthisweirdreader [hope you drop your phone in the toilet]

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    No it's not becuz the characters are cringe... it's just the scene is too embarassing (-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩___-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩-̩̩̩)
     
  4. BooklessBookworm

    BooklessBookworm Sensible Little Sister ꒰ঌ(⃔ ⌯' '⌯)⃕໒꒱

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    I get it, I had a lot of secondhand embarrassment reading “I Can Do It” during the beginning parts. I recommend first going to the comments, slowly gradually going back up and reading it backwards, then once you know what to expect you’ll cool down a bit and, although it’s still a bit embarrassing, since you know what to expect you won’t be as effected. Though, it kinda does ruin the experience just a tad bit.
     
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    DrunkReader01 Well-Known Member

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    skipping a few chapters and reading from there, slowly going backwards if it seems like I've missed somethin important, or just dropping if my tolerance jar has cracked
     
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    scumtrash mentally ill. take me with a grain of salt

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    theyre not real
     
  7. otaku31

    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    You don't; you soldier on, use them as practice to temper your skin emotions against future embarrassments you might be subject to. :blobpeek:
     
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    EternalMoonlight Well-Known Member

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    Yes. You don't get over it. You just bravely go through it. Repeatedly temper your thin skin through experience. Until your bottom line lowers, your tolerance jar cracks. Until whatever embarrassing scene you're subjected to reading is not so anymore. You'll get used to it. Go on, soldier. Makes us proud and join our ranks. We thick skins have went through all that.
     
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  9. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Bruh

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    Pretend you can’t read and skip over it or throw my phone (on the bed of course, don’t want to break it) and rethink my life choices. Then just go back reading it when you’re ready.

    Bonus: if you have thick skin, then you’re good.
     
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  10. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    learn to be thick skin~
    it essential skill on social life~
    think about anything else for distraction~
    pretend see nothing, hear nothing~
    think it is stupid give it smug face~
     
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  11. Zeusomega

    Zeusomega M.D of Olympus Pvt Ltd. Seeking [Boltzmann brain]

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    When you grow out of your milk teeth you'll get over it... don't worry.










    Ps: When reality hits you, everything becomes a bag of meat and bones waggling around. Nothing fazes you. *Cold wind blowing*
     
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    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    Strange. I could've sworn I heard many say the same of chuunibyou. :blobpeek:
     
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    Noni606 Well-Known Member

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    Whenever it happens to me I'm just saying to myself "nevermind if you'll read it or not, it's going to be there anyway. And if you read it it's not going to change the event that already written."
     
  14. Zeusomega

    Zeusomega M.D of Olympus Pvt Ltd. Seeking [Boltzmann brain]

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    Quite the contrary, eight year syndrome has hightened sense of heroism, and shyness to opp sex.


    They're just blind with heroic destiny.




    Nothing compared to seeing everything in life is weighed and all affections are perfunctory, there's no higher cause then earning money. When you're first leaves cause she's "not finding anything worth moving forward too aka( bored af)" while wallowing in pain you see the rest of your life isn't letting you to take a pause, draining your time away, only way ahead is crushing any feelings and move ahead wi..



    *Cough* ok went too far *cough*
     
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    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    To clarify, the description, if not its reality, was quite reminiscent of chuunibyou. :blobpeek:
     
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  16. Zeusomega

    Zeusomega M.D of Olympus Pvt Ltd. Seeking [Boltzmann brain]

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    Maybe some aspects, chuunibou having dark history trend, but here it's dark history, present, future.


    To clarify, I meant to say stop seeing world in rainbows and open your eyes to the gray and dull skies, and in time your eyes will adjust.







    Ps:

    Wait...wha.at's happening...my eye..this power ..could it be?!...
     
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    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    Could be smudged glasses, tinted lenses, or even worse, the dreaded cataract. An urgent visit to the optometrist is recommended.

    You don't want that all that latent eye power to go unchecked and wreak havoc... :blobastonished:




    on your vision. :blobpeek:
     
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  18. Blitz

    Blitz ⛈️ awakened from the reverie❄️

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    when I was younger and my skin was not as thick, I'd bury my face in a pillow and wave my legs
     
  19. Zeusomega

    Zeusomega M.D of Olympus Pvt Ltd. Seeking [Boltzmann brain]

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    Just got checked.


    Doc said they found some strange growth, nothing like they've ever seen before. Being detained by CDC now... Will update on any further changes.




    Ps: really hoping it's some symbiote imparting me with laser eyes :cookie:
     
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  20. Lois.

    Lois. ❲.❳ Wooosh.

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    You don't.
    Cause most of the time with those type of stories...
    The second hand embarrassment gets stronger and stronger...
     
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