The question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“And for you, sir?” It happens a lot.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗
“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
“You’re selfish.” It was a friend.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
A ballet dancer.
Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.
Not knowing who my family are.
Not standing up to bullies.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
High-functioning introvert.
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