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Debate tournaments are wild because tell me why I just had a speech round with a deeply personal story about an ED, however, it was not a speech and more a verbal venting session. There was an emo kid talking about death and Supernatural. And then there was my speech, which is about how America is falling apart.
Also it was the 7th hour long round of the day
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That moment when you choose a controversial topic for your OO and can't find anything online on it so you have to send in a request for official government documents
If you can't find your own information, make it!
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If you could spread this around that would be amazing, I am conducting a research poll for my speech on selective empathy and need public input!
hey!! I love your blog! I was wondering, since I’m competing in original oratory this year for the first time, do you have any tips to break more or just in general?
OOs are so much fun! Some places you can put breaks in is when you're transitioning from one point to the other, when you shift/move positions (you know going from one side of the room to the other), or for dramatic pausing. A well placed dramatic pause during a serious part can pull on the judges heartstrings! Or if you have a moment of suspense or "what are they gonna say next"/"what's the answer to the question?" a pause will get your point across nicely!
Y'all know whats up
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I don't know how long my OO is and at this point I'm too scared to find out
I’m thinking I want to try oo, would talking about my chronic illness and physical abnormality be a good topic 👀❤️
Yes! Personalizing the topic makes the speech all the more impactful. One thing I would take caution with is not making it seem like your saying 'look at me I have all these bad things', which is never the intention when writing on these sorts of topics but they can come across as such. I wanted to write about something similar last year (my rareish mental disorder and how not realizing I had it hurt me) so instead of focusing on just my ailments I focused my speech on the dangers of misdiagnosis. Perhaps talk about the stigma around it, how having these things affect you and the community, whatever feels most important to you.
Good luck, and happy writing! Tell me how this goes! :D
hey! i’m writing my oratory on empathy (and other things that i can’t think of how to describe correctly lol) and in the first section i talk a lot about how i personally apologize too much and say sorry even when it’s not necessary. i like how it turned out, but i’m afraid it’ll come off as condescending and a kind of ‘oh haha it’s so annoying how polite i am haha’. do you have any advice on how i could address this topic in a better way? thank you so much!!
Hey, I'm doing a speech on empathy too! How cool is that?
Anyway, with this topic, it's really hard not to have that undertone because empathy is based on that aspect of this is sad, it's making me sad and now it's making you sad.
Perhaps bring up the condition known as hyper empathy (which is what it sounds like), and talk about how it makes the feeling all the more worse when you can't control your emotions and people mistake it as a cry for attention and make you feel annoying.
So basically, you have to try and make it come off not like a 'I like putting things in rainbow order, I'm so OCD' type of condition but a 'this is real, it effects my everyday life and it hurts that people don't take it seriously' kind of thing. This will make people feel more connected to what your saying and not going 'wow that's so quirky'
I really hope this goes well for you! Best of luck!!
