How old were you first experienced "embarassment?"

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How old were you when you first experienced the emotion of "embarrassment"?
Before age 5 21%  21%  [ 7 ]
Age 5 or 6 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Age 7 or 8 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Age 9 or 10 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Between 11 and 13 18%  18%  [ 6 ]
Between 13 and 15 9%  9%  [ 3 ]
Between 15 and 18 9%  9%  [ 3 ]
After age 18 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I have still literally never experienced embarrassment!! !! 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 33

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05 May 2011, 12:25 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I was 5 when I first experienced embarassement. I've also moticed that a lot of NT get embarrassed about many of the things that I don't think are worth being embarrassed about, like chipping a nail or not being able to find their car keys.


AMEN to that- especially with middle school girls.



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05 May 2011, 12:25 pm

Hmm I am have picked the wrong choice. I picked 7 - 8 because that's roughly around the age I was when I didn't want to get up to sharpen my pencil in class because I didn't want the other kids to stare at me and think how knows what about me. I don't know why I thought they'd stare at me but I remember wearing my pencils out and picking the wood from around the lead with my finger nails to sharpen them rather than getting up and using the pencil sharpener in the classroom. I consider using the pencil sharpener embarrassing but from reading the first few posts it seems that isn't what the OP meant by embarrassed. I have experienced what they described but not very often and just to guess probably not before I was maybe fourteen or around that age. I'm not very social so less chance for me to make a fool of myself if I'm not around people.


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05 May 2011, 1:23 pm

My first moment of embarrassment that I remember:

Age 18 - I was sitting with my cousin in his living room while his parents were out for the night. I had recently learned druing my first year in college that you could light a fart and it would burn when a big fat guy down the hall demonstrated this to me. I was going to demonstrate it to my cousin, rolled back on my back with lighter held to my rear end. As I did so I was looking at the room behind me and my aunt walked in. She had not been feeling well and they came home early that night. I think this was also probably my most embarrassing moment ever.



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05 May 2011, 1:52 pm

I guess I'm uncomfortable with basically any attention on me from more than one person... but embarrassment as in, fall down and my skirt goes up? I mean, I first conceptualized embarrassment in that sense (as in, it made sense to me) when I was about 13. But I don't think I actually feel embarrassment even now.



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05 May 2011, 10:30 pm

When I was a kid, I didn't experience embarrassment. I don't know when I first started experiencing it. Once I was in line at a Subway and there was a piece of toilet paper caught in the back of my pants and the lady behind me was nice enough to tell me. I was embarrassed once she told me about it. I should have known to check but that's the kind of thing that escapes my radar. Another time, I had on this skirt and it was caught in my underclothes and I was oblivious to that. Someone saw it and told me and I felt the whoosh of embarrassment. I have never been short on embarrassing situations.



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06 May 2011, 12:33 am

i threw love letter on to a boy in my class
he started verbally abusing me in full public
that was quite embrassing



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06 May 2011, 12:49 am

Hmm. I am not sure. I don't remember when I really started to feel embarrassment. I guess the earliest I recall for sure was during middle school, so 10-13 range. I pretty much had to be told that I had done something embarrassing to experience it, though. Otherwise, I wouldn't know.



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06 May 2011, 12:54 am

I have no idea, actually. I remember not be embarrassed about things I should have been very young, but I also remember hiding from everyone and not being able to talk to them.

It's an emotion I rarely feel these days, for sure, but I've felt it.


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