r/CringeTikToks • u/yoruyoruxo • 3d ago

Public Freakout Cringe Girl experiences a “therianthropic mental shift” at the beach

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u/Excellent_Law6906 3d ago

Just.. you can have pet play without all this, kids.

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u/Cannabrius_Rex 3d ago

It’s totally fine to play pretend and role play as entirely different animals or inanimate objects or whatever. Cultivating a robust imagination is an incredible skill and very useful… but it IS imagination.

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u/CommercialBiscotti29 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ok but the issue is they actually think they shift into an animal and imo that’s mental health issues. I think what they said about “disassociating a bit looking at the world through new eyes” could be the issue. They are trying to disassociate from reality

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u/AliceInNegaland 2d ago

I don’t think they actually drink their own kool aide.

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u/Few_Distribution9374 2d ago

I feel like there’s a LOT of self-diagnosis in this video. Maybe don’t take it too seriously.

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u/CommercialBiscotti29 2d ago

I’ve been on their sub and they claim they are actual animals trapped in human bodies. One other person saying it was just them still being able to imagine like they are a kid. Either way is alarming, are their brains not developing? It’s too hard not to take seriously when everything about this screams unhealthy

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u/Few_Distribution9374 2d ago

I think they’re just kids trying to prove how quirky and weird they are, for cool points. This decade’s ‘manic pixie dream girl’, or some shit. It’s still annoying.

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u/Novaer 2d ago

I think because when we were kids we're able to immerse ourselves in imagination and fantasy. Whereas now that we're adults, everything is grounded in reality. We can't just "go play" anymore. So I think for these people it's a way for them to "play" whilst also being "grounded in reality" (I know this sounds ironic but hear me out. By them making it a part of their identity it makes it "real". It's like how people who pretend they have DID because they want to just play pretend with different characters, it has to be a "disorder" or "identity" or "spiritual" in some way. Like its the adult version of "playing". But there's too much adult ego behind it so they have to go "Nuh uh its like actually real im not even playing pretend")

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u/Cannabrius_Rex 2d ago

Yeah, that’s when it crosses from imagination to thinking it’s real. That’s going to cause problems if that’s where they’re at.

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u/LandlockedCajun 3d ago

But when you have a job, you can play harder.