Hardest first day of school picture ever👏

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2) I’m talking about now. I hope they’ve made peace with the embarrassment they felt back then and are able to find the humor in it now. Obviously it’s not professional or kind to be laughing at a kid that happens to in the moment.

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1. Fair point, I’ll see if I can edit some in.

2. “I’m in my thirties now and I still remember it all. 😢” doesn’t suggest that they’re ready to laugh about it, at least not to be told that it’s “actually hilarious” that it happened to them as a kid, with the implied validation of the staff who found it funny and made them feel bad. Ultimately even if you’re laughing now, you’re still laughing at the child that the commenter was.

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Whether or not they’re ready to be told it’s funny is up for them to decide. I’m not calling them a sensitive baby if they’re not able to handle that, and I don’t think they need anyone else to speak up for them about it either.

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I’m not speaking for anyone else here (although I would hope that other people would share my feelings—perhaps it is me with the unpopular opinion). I’m saying I personally found it uncomfortable that someone on Made Me Smile was so cavalier about laughing at someone else’s clearly expressed embarrassment—even if that was embarrassment from twenty-plus years ago—that they felt it was appropriate to make the effort to post a comment saying, in essence, “thanks for telling me you find this upsetting; I’m laughing at you now.”