The Origins of Negative Nancy

Nancy Errat Galt was born with the opposite of depression. She was born with a genetic predisposition for a high amount of happiness. As an infant, she was gleeful.

As she grew, she felt forced to cope with being too happy all the time. She could not fit in the way she wanted. Nancy made friends easily, since people do love to be around happy people. But Nancy had a difficult time keeping up with most conversations since they all tended to have such a negative slant to them that her brain would be, very naturally, puzzled by the information at hand and by the way it was delivered.

Nancy, determined to develop the skills to enter into everyday conversations, trained and meditated on adding a negative dimension to what she said. She was effective. She began slowly, finding the worst in situations that were obviously bad. To her delight, she found that others agreed with her! That feeling was so new to her, it was what she earned. She enjoyed a feeling of accomplishment and doubled her efforts toward negativity. This cycle continued upon itself until today.

Nancy does not like summer.

On her birthday, Nancy takes sleep-inducing medicines to avoid the fuss.

Nancy hates having the lights on.

Nancy is alway being interrupted.

Professionally, Nancy is a divorce lawyer.

Nancy is always late.

Nancy dislikes everything.

Nancy is negative.