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When asserting yourself in academia backfires

My colleague keeps interrupting me in faculty meetings and when I speak up about it everyone acts like I am being difficult.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When you push back on being interrupted, you're the one who gets treated as the problem.

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