Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of Fluently Fixed, where we fixed you from

tip to toe to taint to top to all around. And you guys have issues this week because so many

people have written in, I think I grabbed maybe like eight of these, but keep on writing them in.

We're going to keep doing these every week and see if we can fix everything. So let's dive on

into the first question here. Somebody wrote in and they said, hi, Shannon, I have a friend who

tends to make fun of me in social settings. I don't mind friendships where you playfully make fun

of each other when it's appropriate. And, you know, sometimes we do this. But if we're in a

group of people, she has a tendency to call me out or comment on things that feel unnecessary

or like she's trying to embarrass me in front of people. She will, like, loudly point out that I

look tired or laugh at things I say as if they're ridiculous or stupid. I usually laugh it off

or defend myself in a playful manner, but it feels really unnecessary. I feel like she's

deliberately doing it to try to embarrass me.

What's the best way to make her stop?

I feel like direct confrontation would make me come off as overly defensive or sensitive.

Yes.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

This has happened to me so much.

My theory for why it happens to me, I don't know if it's the same as you, but I love being

self-deprecating.

Like, I'm the first person to make fun of myself.

And then I've noticed that sometimes my friends or sometimes even people who listen to the

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