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Originally Posted by BlossomingLen
Hello! How’re you doing today? Good, I hope.
Something very peculiar happens to me every day. When I talk to people, I naturally pretend to be someone else or I pretend to be a character that I know. It changes my opinions, views, and beliefs that people commonly question me about. So when people ask me the same thing twice, I often have a different answer and sometimes others pick up on this and they call me out on it. I can go from an optimist, to a pessimist, to a realist, to something not even among them. I can enjoy a person’s company, to being irritated by their presence. I can be someone who stands up for everything that’s right, to someone who’s very manipulative and calculating. It depends on which character or person I see myself as that day.
Does anyone else do this? Does anyone know if this is some kind of disorder or a symptom of a disorder?
Either way, thank you so much for reading. Have a wonderful day!
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here in the USA pretending to be someone else is not a mental disorder and is not any mental disorder diagnostic criteria or mental disorder symptom.
short version its a learned behavior, children learn it from the first time their parents teach their babies how to know what does a dog say, what does a cat say what does daddy say what does grandma do. then the baby grows up into toddler and young child playing dress up, tea parties and other lets pretend. a child goes to school and what happens..in schools the teacher uses lets pretend as a way to teach their classes, in jr high and high school what happens the music and drama teachers teach/ put on plays and musicals where again the teenager must play pretend to be someone else. in adulthood again people do pretend depending upon situations. in adulthood playing pretend is called roll playing. treatment providers also use the at of playing pretend in many of their therapy approaches.
all is not lost if this learned behavior of playing pretend for you is adversely affecting your life. learned behaviors are able to be reverse just by catching yourself when you fall into your habit of playing pretend, then go back to being the normal you. at first it will be hard but over time you will notice you dont play pretend with others as much as you used to.