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What do you think would happen if your life were captured and aired like on The Truman Show? (lemmy.autism.place)
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Think about all the "quirky" things you do when you think no one is perceiving you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

for a lot of my life, when I have to make a moral decision, I pretend I'm on a Truman Show so that I feel like people are watching me make my choice.

during lockdown, my brain went a little wild with it. I didn't believe I was on a Truman show, but it decided to play how along as if I were. I was explaining things I did out loud even though there was nobody in the house, if I thought they looked weird, stuff like that. I was worried that I was tipping into some sort of maladaptive daydreaming but it receded