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6 could fuck off too. I loathe these one-uppers.
Sometimes they are just trying to relate by going "yeah I've had a similar experience" but it can come off as selfish if they focus on it too much or cut off your story to tell theirs.
My ADHD tells me to try and empathize by sharing a similar experience. It took me so long to realize people were taking it as "one upping" now I just don't share anything.
Yea same here. I've learned to let to them get their full story out, then I ask if I may share a similar experience,
I know. Specifically, I mean the kind of people where you can tell from the moment you start talking, they're listening not to your story, but for a hook to turn the story about them. I have a coworker like that, if I tell a story about something that happened to me this week, he'll tell a story about what happened to him or his family 20 years ago, which by the way is way worse/better. He is also always the hero in these stories. I find most of these people are deeply insecure and try to cover this with a big mouth. So, bully behaviour basically.