Claire Stephens
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And I'm like, whoa, I could never in one million years.
Way too much.
Which is fine.
Here's the complicated thing and why I find it hard to define whether I'm an oversharer.
The thing about sharing and disclosure in general as like a psychological thing that we do is that it should be based on reciprocity.
So it should be me having a conversation with someone and they say, oh, I had horrible postnatal depression with my child.
And I say, oh, my gosh, how hard is it those few months?
And that is how you develop a relationship where you go just a little bit deeper, a little bit deeper, and you take turns.
That has changed in 2026 where so much of our sharing is one way.
Like the weird thing about Harry and that Olympian is that there was no reciprocity.
It was just them.
It's just Harry being like, let me tell you a story about my dick.
I mean, I think what's weird about Australia is that some of those topics we joke about where the undertone is kind of oversharing and Americans don't necessarily share the sense of humour.
They're like, why don't you just talk about it?
So I joke a lot about like I'll be like, I'm poor.
Yeah, yeah.
Or just growing up.
An American would never say that.
Yes, exactly.
So like or I'll joke about my family in a self-deprecating way or so my now husband and I lived in the US for a year and he was going to a music college and on his first day he was