Permission to be awkward
Impression management in the digital age
6 min readMay 11, 2018
Is that what I look like? Is that what I sound like? Did I say something dumb?
This is what it means to feel awkward.
I just started reading the book Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, and at the beginning of the book author Melissa Dahl is defining what awkward means.