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As a sometimes awkward human who has been on the planet for a while, this took me a long time to realize:

If you're in a situation where you're meeting or spending time with a new group of people, and they continue talking and laughing about things that exclude you from the conversation, that's a deliberately disrespectful choice they are making.

Examples include:

1. Group jokes, or "in" jokes (Occasional 5 minute reminiscing is normal, talking about nothing else is not).
2. In depth knowledge or experience (professional or personal) or super complicated subjects (unless you are actively attending university lecture on particle physics, most subjects can be discussed in a way that e

I don't understand why some people call two completely different things "chicken sandwiches".

Now obviously I don't want to get all reductive about how anything between bread can be considered a sandwich and all hamburgers are actually sandwiches anyway. A chicken sandwich (loosely speaking) has roast chicken or deli chicken meat with some condiments possibly tomatoes and lettuce and [unless otherwise specified] is often served cold. A chicken burger is a hamburger but with chicken. It is always hot and usually fried.

This aligns with veggie burgers, turkey burgers, fish burgers.... bison burgers... anything that you'd imagine to be a burger but contains chicken instead.

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