Florence Given

Your self-expression that you fear is like embarrassing or like theater kid energy.

Oh my God, my veins are pumping with theater kid energy.

I just love expressing myself.

And this fear that that was really embarrassing

If you can learn to sort of enjoy it and enjoy being annoying.

Do you know how many people think I'm annoying?

So many people think I'm annoying and I've learned to love it.

What's that Addison Rae song?

Exactly.

It makes me want it more.

I just sort of embraced my annoyingness.

And that doesn't mean, like, I'm going to be fucking annoying for the sake of being annoying.

I hate that shit.

That's inauthentic.

I'm saying that your annoyingness... And I'm not going to say cringe, because I think the cringe thing has been overdone to the point where it's now cool to be like, I'm just so cringey, right?

We've made it cool.

And actually...

If it's cool, then it's not cringy.

If it's cool to say it's good to be cringy, it's no longer cringe, right?

Because cringe really is that earnest self-expression, that aliveness within you that feels so vulnerable to express because it's been shamed before, yeah?