The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Lack of empathy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
Inability to listen.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
I’m a bit of a hoarder.
I would be less naive.
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
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