I've seen this exact same post years ago but from the other perspective and the guy was watching Colombo.
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I remember a similar post where someone introduced their autistic cousin to Frasier only to meet the guy some time later and see that he had basically turned into Frasier.
Thank you for reminding me of that one. I had to go look it up and read it again.
Someone did this with the main character in Drive and the rest of his life was trying to stop anyone he knows from seeing the movie themselves.
Doesn't the character in drive have basically 0 personality?
So this is NOT normal? I'm a Frankenstein ('s monster (fuck off)) amalgam of various tics, mannerism, and attitudes that I've seen expressed by people I admire.
Do regular people just roll the dice on their personality and go with it? What if they roll a bad personality?
I read that as Frankenstein's monster truck and dibs on the band name.
Granted
It took me a long time to realise this is not normal. Most people just do this stuff instinctually. It’s why I’ve always found people so much effort.
I have ADHD and I personally wish I could adopt some personality traits from people I find admirable!
I'm just so me all the time even when I try very hard to be aware of myself and how I'm presenting.
So impulsive.
I get that feeling too, honestly. Like when I'm in front of a group of people I sometimes wish I could shake the nervousness that seems to rise from nowhere at all, but unfortunately I'm trapped as myself, fumbling and sweating through some softball "so tell us about this project" question 🙈
isn't this just the Frasier greentext without the effort?
this is kinda sad. motherfucker is gonna be really depressed in a few years when he realizes he has to pretend to be someone else to be liked.
Life’s all about pretending. The economy and its money, for example.
Politicians and their facades
I larped as a confident person for a few years and it just became my natural state of being.
Jerry Seinfeld is likeable?
I too find this surprising
Oh hell yeah, I've heard this over and over again over the years. I thought he would be cringy - but I would be wrong.
Yeh
I always thought he's phony.
Maybe because there are a lot of phonies who pretend to be Jerry.
Why does everything have to be autism and larping?
Can’t it be yeah I like this show and this character so sometimes I make similar jokes or act like him, he has inspired an aspect of my personality.
I just go thru life like I'm playing a CRPG. Ask people about themselves incessantly. It looks like people like to talk about themselves. And they also liked people who asked them to talk about themselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People LOVE talking about themselves. You'll be thought of as an excellent conversationalist if this is your manner, and you may end up learning lots of interesting tidbits about life and people, which will make you even MORE interesting later on. It'll give you a "storied life" personality.
Just remember that it's okay to expect your friends to trade off with you and ask you all about your feelings etc. You don't want to turn into the neighborhood shrink (unless you do lol)
It’s coded language, anon is just severely socially inept.
Wonder why that is
Whenever I tried imitating somebody else's personality to fit in I ended up feeling very insecure. What worked far better is cultivating bits of my own personality and being more selective about the type of people I want to fit in with.
Yeah you can ship of Theseus yourself into a more enjoyable person that way, but still stay mindful of the individual parts you're taking.
The first thing I ever consciously took was my friend's laugh. It was just so open and joyful, and I really admired that part of him. Anyway thanks, Eric. I love it.
Actually the ship of Theseus is a really interesting way to think about your personality
amen
I had a friend in school who liked to imitate people. Except he was always using the same voice and body language when he was imitating. So you knew he was trying to imitate someone, but you had no idea who that was supposed to be, and it was very funny. I told him that, one day, and he was shocked by the realization.
My wife does this when she's quoting texts or emails from people lol
My experience growing up was that I had personality traits that were strong since birth (and still are today), and every other traits that I developed as I aged and experienced life.
In these growing years, the people I looked up to, the artists I liked and any other person that had something interesting to me all had an effect on my personality because I replicated the things I liked about these people.
So reading the green text, he probably did the same thing with Jerry and it became a part of his personality.
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