Minisode 2: The Things I'll Do to Avoid The Things I Won't Do

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, I'm Kaylie Shure and this is too much
to say A questions it out you. Okay, So this
week's minisode is a story about something horrendous I did

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as a child. Um. I don't like to do things
that I don't want to do, plain and simple. I
just I just don't like doing it. Um. I could
blame several things for it. I could blame being an
angiogram eight. I could blame having a d h D
and you know, having poor executive functioning and being untreated
for that until I was in my twenties. And I

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could just blame laziness. I don't know. Maybe some I
think it's some combination of all three, but there's um. Okay,
So when I get anxious and I get nervous, I
like have to pee a lot. And I know that
that's like a normal thing, but like a lot a lot.
And I used to really hate swimming class because I
would get cold and I just would have a really

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hard time not plugging my nose and being able to
go underwater. And so when I was like six or seven,
I was taking swimming lessons and it was at the
like local Olympic sized pool, so it got really deep,
like it went to like fourteen feet and I just
didn't like it. And I told my mom I didn't
like it. And the truth is, like she did the
right thing because kids need to know how to swim,

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like I just I need to and she was like, no,
you're going to swimming lessons, and that's like a good
parental choice. So one day I just had had enough.
I was like, I can't do this anymore. I don't
like this. I have to pee. I feel like my
teacher has a vendetta against me, and I just don't
want to do it. So I, as usual, asked to
be excused to use a restaurant within the first five

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minutes of class because I had to pee and I
do not be in pools. Some people seem to think
that's okay, that's disgusting and an unforgivable act. Don't do that.
Uh So I did my you know, my my every
week routine of going to the bathroom within five minutes,
but then I just didn't come back. Uh And they
let me go to the bathroom by myself because I

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was like six or seven at this point, and uh,
I just I found a cozy little locker and I
got inside of it, and because I was so small,
I could just sit down, and I just sat in
the locker and I started to hear some hubbub. About
fifteen minutes in when someone had realized I was gone
and people were looking for me and calling my name,

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and uh, kids, parents who had stayed through the lesson
had been calling. Yeah, it was I had really worried
a lot of people, and there were a lot of
stress adults, and so they're they're out there like calling
my name, but I'm not moving, I am not giving up.
I don't want to go to class. And I don't
know what I thought the outcome of this could be,

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but it was not very well thought out, because again
I was a literal child, and eventually after I mean it,
it had to have been I remember class being almost
over when this happened. So it was probably like forty
five minutes into this, and uh, somebody opened the locker
that I was in and was like, oh, we found her.

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And it turns out that they thought I had drowned,
and they were sending people diving down like thirteen ft
to look for me. They were going to empty the pool.
They thought a kid had just straight up died and
fallen in and nobody noticed, and yeah, I really And
if my teacher didn't hate me like I thought she
did at that point, she did after that and that

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was not that was not my best moment. Uh, but
it just feels like an excellent microcosm for what I
will do to avoid something that makes me nervous that
I don't like. UM. I feel like I've done similar
things on avoiding a date with a guy actually, like
like just completely had a meltdown and come up with

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some ridiculous excuse and just like disappeared and just been
like sorry. And it's because I liked um. So that's
a whole thing as well. But that was this week's minisote.
We will be back next week. We have two more
weeks of the minisot's until we're back in full force.
And last week I asked for you guys to reach
out with things that you wanted to see on the podcast,
So keep me posted on that and I will see

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you next week. I'm telling sure, And this is too
much to say, don't go asking questions, tell it out
you