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Richard Osmond

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  1. “You know, you live with it and your behavior sort of changes, and you kind of go, Oh no, I am a weird person, so I have to hide that away or explain away why I'm weird. You know, I'm very grateful that the one thing I always had was I was good with words. I was able to put things into words. I was always able to make people laugh. And so for years, I've been able to paper over the cracks of all of that because I had all this stuff, but I knew that I could sit in a room and make people laugh. And I knew I could say the right things to people. And so I sort of got away with it for years and years and years is the truth.”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And sort of had this false self anyway from when he was nine years old, and his dad left and everything's okay. So, you know, there was a real sort of storm of things brewing there. As I say, all of which have brought me good things in the end. But, you know, I think meant that, you know, I didn't live the life I should have done for many years because I was sort of hiding away from things. Sometimes I have to hide away from because with my eyesight, I just can't. It's not safe for me to do various things. And some things, just my height. And sort of thing, I'm going to look stupid. Oh, I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to roller coaster thing. And also, what if I legs don't fit on that? And, you know, just silly, silly little things. And, you know, the world will not, the world is not shy in letting you know that you're weird. That there's something weird about you. And certainly that's what I felt. I felt weird. And of course, as soon as you feel weird, you have to sort of...”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Well, sort of in my teenage, I was sort of very tall from about 17 probably. I was always tall, but kind of nice, oh, you're the tallest in your class. And that's, you know, which is quite a fun thing to be, you know, and that's what you want. You want to be 6'2, right? That's what, you know, anyone who's 5'9 or 6'7", we all want to be 6'2". And yeah, so sort of 17, 18, and when I was off to university, which again is very, you know, so I'm sort of this guy who is much too tall and is awkward about being tall who can't see anything and who's quite an introvert anyway.”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “That's body shaming. I mean, that's what that is. I would never have thought of it as that. I just was embarrassed. It just made me feel shy, made me not want to go out. But it's body shaming. And actually having it named, you just think, oh, good for you. And it's the younger generation who do it. They're so great. And they just say, no, come on. That's body shaming. And you think, oh, that's such a lovely sort of thing to have in my armoury, to kind of go, yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. And again, 90% of people, they mean nothing by it, and they get it. But it's just boring. And 10% of people, you just think, oh, you're very unpleasant.”

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  5. “Tiny example, but recently people are saying, Oh, you mustn't body shame. And I thought, well, that's interesting because body shaming is sort of something that, you know, certain people would say that's what a snowflake talking about body shaming. But actually, it really, I think, yeah, that's what you're doing. That's what people have done to me for the last 30 years. They body shamed me. Like, because they've talked about my stature and I felt ashamed.”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “But I get it every single time someone does it. So just think for one second, has this guy ever heard this before? Has he heard this thing before? Is it a fun thing to say to him? Because to me, if I go to a giga cinema, it's a nightmare because I don't want to be in front of anyone. I go out of my way to be as far back as possible, which one you can't see means it's impossible. Or you sit on the island and sit like, yeah, I take it seriously. And every single time they say it. Now that's just a...”

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  7. “A couple of times a day, there's just someone who wants to shout you out of a window or just wants to make you feel small ironically. You know, that's what they want to do. And you just think, why? What someone's a bit different to you and you've got to shout something and make yourself feel a bit better. And so being different in any way whatsoever, I think, really teaches you about people and about the hate that's out there and about the unhappiness that's out there because that's where it all comes from. And so being tall, yeah, has taught me about microaggressions and has made me try and fight for people who are different and has made me just say to people, if someone is different, right, just talk to them normally. You don't need to, we never had the word, but sometimes I'll sort of tweet something about, oh, I love this film or I went to see this gig or blah, blah, blah. And like 10 people go, oh, glad I wasn't behind you. And you know what? It's a perfectly harmless joke, right? Perfectly harmless. I get it. I understand why people do it.”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Your life and in a much more harmful way. So I've always hopefully, really, really understood the idea of microaggressions and that idea that, please, I hear this every single day, even if you're trying to be kind, you know, if you see somebody as different, they do not need to be told. They do not need it pointed out every single day because everyone has told them their entire life that they're different. You know, and I know you're just thinking, yeah, but it's just me. You think, yeah, but it's just you and five other people every single day forever. And, you know, I've had that with my height forever and ever and ever incredibly self-conscious. And most people are perfectly nice. Some people are horrible because some people, it's a really good radar for what people are like. I call it a C word radar sometimes. This being different in any way, perhaps you'll agree with, which is so many people are sort of lovely on chat.”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “It's quite surprising. Well, I'm six foot seven, which is too much, is the truth. And it makes you extraordinary. Look, my eyesight is not, people can't see that, right? Okay, so that's mine and that's internalized. And I deal with that how I want to. My height is something that people can always see. And I find it fascinating again in this world of social media when people talk about microaggressions and stuff that you must have seen your entire life, which is if you're different in any way, right, you're reminded of it. Non-stop. You know, mostly in a people that are not being cruel, sometimes they are. Now I have a height, so I'm not being discriminated against because of my height, right? It's not costing me anything. But I do know that every single day of my life I'm reminded of it, every single day just non-stop. And so I know that to be a person of color, to be differently gendered, to be all of these things, I know that the microaggressions I get, you're getting non-stop every day of...”

    2023-01-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Moment 91 - The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT