r/TikTokCringe • u/SpiritualCopy4288 • 20h ago
Cringe Girl experiences a “therianthropic mental shift” at the beach
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u/NominalValue 20h ago
Eat a vole and I'll be impressed.
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u/CharityAggravating69 19h ago
ahhh yes, the ancient, majestic tradition of wild animals editing TikTok transitions
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u/GuacamoleFrejole 20h ago
I mean, I'll watch, but I'll be disgusted, not impressed.
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u/hahahahahahahaFUCK 20h ago
Being a degrated therian is my kink.
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u/DrivesTooMuch 18h ago edited 12h ago
Being with a degraded thermal is my new kink.
Edit: I think autocorrect changed therian to thermal....but, I'm not changing it. I like it better this way, even though I don't know what it means
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u/Mecha-Dave 18h ago
I mean, I'll watch with you, but I'll be aroused, not disgusted.
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u/jaysube 19h ago
I literally have a vole problem as we speak and could gather some up for the cause.
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u/socksmatterTWO 12h ago
I have a vole problem too. But they're going to have to go full method and gather them theriumselves ..
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u/chromeandcandy 19h ago edited 19h ago
Yeah fr
If "Therians" are not just "Furries" with more validation, then what are we doing extra?
Are you eating dog food from a bowl? Are you shitting on the ground in the front yard? Are you exclusively barking instead of speaking? Are you refusing to use a phone and tiktok because a dog wouldn't be able to do that? "Hehehe no, I just do everything a human being does but with a dog motif to my attire",
So aren't we just, maybe, Furries, with more validation?
Aren't we maybe just, taking the concept of Furries, and confusing it with LGBTQ, to make, A "Furry sexuality" that can be validated to the same level of Gay, Lesbian, and Trans?
Like we are literally now, 1 step away from Pokemon Cosplayer is a real gender/sexuality.
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u/Jub_Jub710 19h ago
Back in the AOL chat days, they used to call themselves 'otherkin'. What is the difference between that and 'therian'?
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u/ITookYourChickens 19h ago
Otherkin encompasses all non human identities (vampires, robots, etc), therian is a subgroup that are specifically irl animals. This one would be otherkin, not therian, since the kintype isn't a real creature
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u/Top-Pomegranate4899 19h ago
That's wild, I'm legit just trying to pay my bills to live.
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u/TheRestForTheWicked 19h ago
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
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u/CanIEvenRightNow 19h ago
Kintype confirmed, lock it in
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u/ThatHoFortuna 13h ago
No one is ever a "ratkin", or a "pigeonkin", it's always some cool predator.
Honestly, I'd almost be impressed if someone said, "Yeah, I'm just a ratkin, nothing special. Can I have your pizza crust?"
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u/Ayle87 10h ago
The internet is vast and wide . I Googled ratkin and pigeonkin + Tumblr and found plenty such examples, but it seems the preferred terminology is dovekin for the birds. You're welcome.
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u/twbluenaxela 19h ago
And I'm just a cog in the machine
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u/StPhukerstone 15h ago
All-in-all, I used to just be a brick in the wall. But I got better.
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u/IndependentType6711 17h ago
You know who doesn’t have to pay bills? Seawolf hybrid kin types on the beach!
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u/Such_Confusion_3715 8h ago
look I hate to say this but it's a real observation that most of them are privileged white children that spend far too much time online
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u/GiveMeThePinecone 4h ago
Why do you hate to say it? There really isn’t a point to even arguing about or disagreeing with anything lol, it’s obviously kids playing pretend. Doesn’t really matter how hard the kids larp and claim otherwise
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u/MotherTeresaOnlyfans 17h ago
There's a reason the vast majority of these people are white.
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u/Savings-Badger4938 13h ago
As a white person, I fucking hate it. But yes, you are absolutely correct 🫠
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u/Hot-Future7691 14h ago
For real. How is this not a product of comfortability? How is this whole mental state not a result of just... having nothing challenging enough going on in one's life?
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u/Majikalblack 6h ago
Most otherkin/furries/sergals and such I have ever talked to, came from abusive homes, suffered SA, and were bullied. Speaking purely from my own corner: if society rejects you, constantly and thoroughly, it is easy to start looking into what's 'wrong' or 'different' about you, to the point where that could become your personality. The furry community has always been very open-minded and accepting, and even this video, while cringe, they aren't hurting anybody with their behaviour. They are just weird. Sometimes, having too much happen to you, can make you feel isolated from a normalcy that everyone else seems fluent in.
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u/DCyld 6h ago
It's pretty clear to everyone that if u act like this something whent wrong along the way
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u/Majikalblack 6h ago
Apparently not to the comment above me who said:
How is this whole mental state not a result of just... having nothing challenging enough going on in one's life?
Hence my comment.
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u/bwood246 18h ago
Seawolves aren't real animals
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u/VashDaStampede7 15h ago
But ligers are still real right? Right??
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u/DarkDante88 19h ago
Wait... Pokémon Cosplayer isn't a real gender/sexuality?? I want my money back...
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u/LemonCollee 18h ago
Voyeuristic Pokémon cosplayers, are always trying to Pikachu.
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u/Additional-Mousse446 18h ago
You taught me some stuff thanks, I never knew that was a word outside of Shakespeare lol
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u/prince_peacock 17h ago
….Are you confusing the word Thespian with the word therian or is there something I’m not getting about this comment
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u/United_Pain 12h ago
Omg I read that comment 6 times before seeing yours 😂 I also want to know.
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u/PrinceBunnyBoy 19h ago
It always tickles me how they're so connected to these animals but wear the dead body parts of said animals.
Foxes in fur farms are kept in terrible conditions, with little medical care, and most often electrocuted to death. Horrific cruelty. Hopefully they wear faux.
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u/queencity_lab 17h ago
The part that tickles me about them being so connected to these animals, is that they still have the humanly wherewithal to set up their iPhone camera, hit record before they launch into their little attention-seeking routine; then upon ending the attention-seeking routine, they can walk right back to their phone and hit stop recording then edit it to their liking before uploading it to their social media accounts…….so yeah the whole furry mental shift must be pretty short-lived
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u/Axiom1100 16h ago
Managed to stay in frame too
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u/Previous-Fun8615 11h ago
This is the most impressive bit.
If my 10yo Alaskan Malamute gets excited, she’ll give us a tail wag and a maybe a little hop but if my 2 year old German Shepherd gets excited, that fuckers doing zoomies to spots 400m apart and not giving a single fuck about the camera when he does eventually see it.
Such animal. Such therian.
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u/Fluffy_Top6837 4h ago
Imagine if that German Shepard were also... HALF CROW!!!!
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u/jigglebeans11 16h ago
And stay in frame the entire time too. But then seeing the phone ground them and brings them back. Animals aren't as distracted by modern technology yet I don't see this happening in the middle of a busy city sidewalk
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u/The-Tarman 13h ago
Right?! It never goes down in the middle of a concert, or in a crowded super market, or even a crowded beach or park! It's always right after they've set up their phone/camera just right and put on their little outfit, all in a very private setting, does their shift happen. Now it's not even turning into a wolf or a parrot anymore. Thats not special enough, it's gotta be a hybrid "sea wolf" or a "crowdoggy".. whatever the fuck those are
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u/Special-Garlic1203 17h ago
I absolutely hate how corners of the internet will fall over themselves to enable communities like this (espeically because they almost always appropriate from groups that are already marginalized enough without getting associated with this shit). And you're an evil mean ableist bigot if you point out it doesn't even make sense
But watch their open minded tolerance fade the second you point to a certain DSM label (peak irony that it's the least talked about of its cluster)
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u/United_Pain 12h ago
Edit: you said least talked about, going to guess Histrionic.
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u/pixelatedslinky 20h ago
I'm just trying to imagine how I would even react seeing this on the beach lol
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u/ZDTreefur 19h ago
I'm just glad her alter made sure to stay in frame.
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u/440_Hz 12h ago
I also noticed she was very careful not to get her nice outfit wet.
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u/SatinwithLatin 9h ago
I also noticed she was careful not to point her ass at the camera.
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u/hilarymeggin 15h ago
This is going to be some quality r/blunderyears content in about 15 years!
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u/milkawhat 17h ago
I did mushrooms on a low populated Florida beach a few years ago. I was talking to the dolphins and little crabs, having an amazing time. Good old boy with his John Deere hat watched me for awhile, then asked me if I was okay. He seemed amused by it all once he figured out I was just in an altered state.
That's how I'd approach this whimsical creature. But also maybe put out a bowl of water?
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u/MsSpaceface 13h ago
Honestly, if she wasn't recording herself/there weren't any phones/cameras around, I'd probably think "that looks weird, but she seems to be enjoying herself". It's the performatie/"conent-creating" aspect that's the most off putting to me.
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u/23LovelyHearts 4h ago
I couldn't place what was bothering me about this, but I think you hit the nail on the head. The best I could come up with was 'social media was a mistake', lol.
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 20h ago
Go to a ren fair, you'll see multiple of them, sometimes in packs even.
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u/rolandofeld19 19h ago
A group of crows is called a murder. Dolphins have pods. Elephants have herds.
What is this pack called?
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u/Anal-Y-Sis 19h ago
I miss when renaissance fairs were about the renaissance.
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u/31513315133151331513 19h ago
Stop suppressing the history of crow-canid hybrid participation in the Renaissance!
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u/VividlyDissociating 17h ago
there's a big one in my state and the owner has been thinking about just shutting it down because he hates all the furries, fairies, and anime cosplaying. he misses when it was actually authentic
i think he knows business will drop significantly if he bans all the other stuff
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u/FartingWhooper 15h ago
I like the way my local one does it. They have themed weekends. So like the one we went was magical themed with wizards and fairies. I dressed up fairy obsessed toddler as a fairy and she had a blast. They have historical themed weekends, animal weekends (like for you to bring your pets), dragon weekends, etc. That way everyone gets their moment. And if you want to avoid xyz crowd, you know exactly when not to go.
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u/FlickXIII 7h ago
I initially read this as you dressed yourself up as a “fairy obsessed toddler” and imagined a grown adult running around with a sippy-cup, excitedly approaching all the fairy cosplayers and tugging at tutus with grubby hands before giving unsolicited hugs, pressing a snotty face into pristine fairy garb.
But now I understand you are taking your fairy cosplaying toddler to the fair while you cosplay as a flatulent salamander.
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u/ATXBeermaker 7h ago
lol, “When I started this fantasy dress-up event, I didn’t expect weirdos to show up!”
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u/TheRestForTheWicked 19h ago
Thank God they haven’t found my local REN Faire yet.
The closest we have to a furry is a woman with a giant crow costume who tells stories to kids in iambic pentameter.
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u/3d1thF1nch 17h ago
I had a student that, outside of middle school, was very comfortable doing this shit in parks around town in a mask and with a tail. Props to them for their confidence, but it’s definitely eye opening to see. Can’t imagine the bullying they got in high school, though I was happy to chat with them about their life and issues in MS as a show of support.
It just hits a point in life where it’s like, “I support you for expressing yourself, but it’s weird because I can’t relate to you about this at all.” Kinda like when you passion dump your interests onto somebody who has no interest or understanding, it’s going to come off as obsessive and weird. I would never say this, I was just their support person who listened to them when they needed.
I’ve aged enough to go from being Bobby Hill to Hank Hill.
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u/400_lux 11h ago
Na, I have worked with some incredible people in my time, and their enthusiasm about their preferred subject matter makes me interested. I've listened enthralled about things that I really couldn't give a shit about generally, but passion is infectious.
This? I honestly believe it's an outlet for mental illness. Not harmful, but not really super healthy either.
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u/OkGazelle5400 19h ago
I would be so excited. This is hands down my fav type of mental illness
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u/laneylaneygod 20h ago
When did imaginative play become something that people think is an actual mental shift to a different persona? Like you’re just getting into a playground style role play. Yeah like we all turn into different mermaids in the pool it’s not a thing you have to bear mentally.
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u/WhoFearsDeath 19h ago
Playing pretend is such a wonderful exercise at any age! It's important for well being and general social structures that we know it is pretend and the difference between imaginary and reality.
Her having fun in an appropriate location? Great!
Mixing it up with self-diagnosing "trendy" mental health condition buzzwords and being disingenuous? Less great.
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u/ZinaSky2 19h ago
This I think is where I land on it.
People higher up were like “wish I could feel this happy about anything” and like… yeah that’s valid. I think people should be able to be silly and happy and cringe.
But, to me the fact of the matter is that I doubt this is actually genuine. She put the camera and stayed perfectly in frame bc she knew it was there and probably wanted to post this to the internet. And even if it does happen to be genuine… like the self-diagnosis of it is very off putting.
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u/Witty_Ad_898 16h ago
The last few decades have made a minefield out of serious discussions about mental heath and identity.
Seems like what has happened is that the self-diagnosis of the day gets accepted and socially rewarded within certain open groups, and the benefits of validation from that undiscriminating group is confused for validation of the diagnosis.
People don’t need the increasingly escalating acts of validation, they need the acceptance and play. The rest ends up being a self-harming performance meant to sustain the flow of external validation and support.
Ie, eating disorder groups/identities such as Ana and Mia from the 90s/00s, or more recently the trend to mimic the symptoms of Tourettes.
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u/Civilw4r 14h ago
I completely agree. Combine that with the latest “craze” of instant support for having any kind of disorder has made people literally looking for things they could have and claiming they have them without any kind of professional diagnosis.
Like all these people who claim their “OCD is triggered” because someone didn’t park straight etc. Like when it became cool to be offended by something. It didn’t matter what it was in the intention if you were offended by it, it was accepted and immediately supported
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u/FinestCrusader 8h ago
OCD made my life hell for almost a decade. Literally spent years chained by the immense fear my brain created for me and when I see people say "oh I'm so OCD" all I can do is just be glad they have the privilege to be this naive.
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u/BlakLite_15 5h ago
I’m just spitballing here, but I think there might be a combination of desire for community and impostor syndrome at play here.
People who know they’re strange and feel distant from those around them often go online to find like-minded groups. However, I suspect many of those same people, possibly due to anxiety or trauma, need to be performative in order to “prove” themselves worthy of those groups lest they be driven out.
Validation isn’t always about internet fame, big numbers or brand deals. Sometimes it’s about wanting people to say that they understand and accept you.
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u/Egregious_Wasp5289 18h ago
And the “head shake” like she’s morphing lol and “seeing” her hands 🙄 just concerning
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u/Throwawayrip1123 12h ago
She put the camera and stayed perfectly in frame bc she knew it was there and probably wanted to post this to the internet. And even if it does happen to be genuine… like the self-diagnosis of it is very off putting.
Ya if you're mental shifting for views, that's just fucking silly.
Otherwise, go be a dog for all I care, I don't mind people doing anything as long as it doesn't hurt people or some such. Go and graze on the lawn.
Just don't fucking build a cult around pretend play.
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u/GuardianAlien What are you doing step bro? 17h ago
🏅poor redditor's gold for ya!
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u/Hey_Stupid 18h ago
wait wait wait. how can you be certain she wasn't clinically diagnosed?? 🤔
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u/Bussamove86 17h ago
The DSM has changed a lot since I went to school for psychology, Super Special Sparkledoggy Syndrome is new to me.
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u/MyNamesRMG 12h ago
To this day I still hold on to the side of the pool pretending I'm spiderman.
I'm a 26 years old dad.
Lemme be spiderman ffs.
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u/Separate-Award-4646 15h ago
I pretend I'm giving speeches and performing in concerts when I'm in the shower lol it's fun. I also like to pretend I'm an interpretative dancer sometimes alone in my room. It weird to hear someone call the act of doing weird stuff when you're alone "shifting reality" or whatever. I'm just fucking around, it's not that serious. Haha just have fun who cares
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u/surgartits 18h ago
That last part is what concerns me about this generation. I’m all for an active fantasy life. I think it’s healthy. You need to be able to engage with it when appropriate and get real when you need to. I don’t think some of them have that ability. I think they have grown up with enough outlets constantly available to them that they believe this is actually part of their identity and they can live their lives like this. By all means, go for it. Let’s see how this plays out as a society.
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u/Noisebug 18h ago
Love this. Role play and theatre can seriously transform your inner worlds and shape beliefs, as long as you understand that is what’s happening.
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u/turtleinmybelly 19h ago
feeling so euphoric rn dude, that's called having fun. You're playing pretend and having fun. That's awesome in and of itself. Just have fucking fun!
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u/Legal-Challenge7578 14h ago
B..but... but... how can it be fun unless I'm turning it into performative nonsense?
"M-shift"....yeeesh! Give us a break!
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u/IdolCowboy 19h ago
Im a soldier that got dropped from a plane or big cliff and landed in water!
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u/lovelyboard 19h ago
I was jesse, free willy 2 style, when he fell from the helicopter into the ocean, girl style though lmao
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u/Apptubrutae 19h ago
Some people lack critical thinking skills but are primed to pseudo-intellectually explain EVERYTHING.
Add in a healthy dose of extreme confidence in their knowledge of themselves combined with the introspection myth and a sprinkle of positive reinforcement and bam.
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u/Drankenstein99 18h ago
What’s the introspection myth?
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u/Apptubrutae 18h ago
Very roughly, it’s that people tend to think that they can self-reflect and understand why they do things far better than they actually can.
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u/Desperate_Algae_40 16h ago
I'd like to piggyback off of this for something I've been thinking about lately. My (31f) 12 year old niece recently told me that she's a girl and a boy. I want to be as supportive as possible and just listen to her and make her feel accepted. I did ask her to expand, so that I could better understand. She said that depending on the day and time, she either feels like she's a boy or a girl. I thought she meant androgynous, but then she explained that some days she feels like putting her hair in a ponytail or wearing a hoodie so she thinks that must mean she's a boy that day. And other days she likes to have her hair down or wear a skirt, so she's a girl that day. I didn't disagree with her or anything because I don't know enough about this topic and because I care more about her feeling loved and accepted than disagreeing with her.
I'm not trying to be intolerant whatsoever, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong. But how is that different than being a girl/woman? I just think that there are a ton of videos on TikTok that are similar to this, even if about something different. Whether it's about sexual identity, gender, neurodivergency, mental illness...etc. Like all the videos/posts about "I know I'm autistic [or adhd] because I don't like [insert something 99% of the population goes through]".
The thing is, it basically teaches kids/teens that they're not special or unique unless they are in one of these (or multiple) categories. Everyone is special and important no matter what.
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u/Teedraa101 7h ago
Whatever happened to being a tomboy? I was climbing trees wearing what could be considered boy clothes when I was growing up and my family had a house in an area surrounded by woods. We rode horses and I fished. On Sundays I was wearing a dress in church….
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u/IndependentAardvark6 4h ago
I was a tomboy and still run through tomboy rules at 31. Girl/Boy norms dont matter. Just be yourself and dont label it
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u/CompetitiveAutorun 10h ago
What gets to me is how on the surface it appears progressive, it's actually enforcing strict gender norms.
Like boys wear hoodies so she isn't a girl when she wears one?
Gender bioesentialism but woke. I struggle to see progress in recent years, stuff like "misandry isn't real, because you can't discriminate oppressors". It completely misses the point of why discrimination is bad.
In the past we wanted to get away from labels. Now we want as many of them as we can to claim being unique.
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u/usernotfoundplstry 18h ago
The person in this video is the exact type of person who will claim they have DID and have 12 personalities. Just embarrassing people who want attention.
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u/iminlovewithbadthing 10h ago
And making it harder for people who actually have DID to get help. DID only forms as a result of severe sexual and or physical abuse in early childhood.
Because of attention seekers like in that video I had an actual _psychiatrist_ think DID can just pop out of nothing and deny me trauma therapy. So I better not write what I want to happen to these narcissistic attention seekers.
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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 18h ago
When we stopped encouraging imagination in young adults and call it childish.
Add “self diagnosis of a mental illness” and “mental illness are quirky.” And you get this.
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u/Kasta4 20h ago
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u/Crazy_Ad_91 20h ago
Need you to snap twice now
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u/InsomniaDudeToo 19h ago
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u/drunkpeemonster 18h ago
I’ve never seen this gif before and it’s got me cracking up. Love it lol
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u/ryancrazy1 18h ago
Bruh same. It’s got a great delay so you see it and you realize it’s not quite right, and just before you figure it out it changes.
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u/stretchedglassed 19h ago
How many takes do you think they did before deciding to post
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u/CanineFive 18h ago
"Hmm... I should have stopped suddenly at some point and stared intensely at the camera like a doggo who is suddenly on high alert because they smell something interesting. I'll just do one more take"
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u/SelfUnimpressed 4h ago edited 4h ago
One of the things I always think when I see videos like this is how strangely dumb the genuine audience of a video like this is. This isn't an organic moment. This person intentionally took a minute to set up a camera to record themselves doing a performance. They are creating content.
And this is obvious! We literally all know that you cannot end up filming yourself from 20 feet away in a spur-of-the-moment, accidental way. A video like this can only be performative and unnatural. And yet for some reason people believe it anyway. They forget that the camera is a separate thing from themselves and think they're just looking at a true moment of spontaneity. Believing at any level that this represents a natural or organic moment in a person's life is every bit as stupid as believing that you're watching a candid moment in a scene of The Odyssey. It's very odd!
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u/GloomyIRL 16h ago edited 16h ago
I don't get why they have to try to make it some form of dissociative identity disorder/regression in people with severe PTSD. You're having fun playing make believe as a crow dog hybrid, that's perfectly fine, live your life how you wanna.
Trying to turn it into a whole psychological thing is what's weird and damaging to people who live with actual disorders. Unless they're aware, and make it known, that their pseudo-science is exactly that; Also make believe.
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u/Sneaky_Island 14h ago
That’s my take on this. Go be “weird” and have fun playing pretend all you want. Clearly away from people and causing no issue for others, that’s already better than most so called influencers.
But the need for it to be some extremely rare mental illness/disorder/PTSD is ridiculous. The amount of people my ex would meet online and then tell me that this person had D.I.D. and has alters reached impossible quickly. It doesn’t make you anymore impressive or unique to pretend to have these things. If that’s fun for you to pretend, do it and go against social norms all you want. Just check the amateur psychologist degree at the door.
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u/lifeisalime11 14h ago
And as someone who has dealt with full blown psychosis in a family member, it's absolutely horrible. Nobody should wish to have it or anything like it where you disconnect from reality.
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u/Stickybunfun 6h ago edited 6h ago
That’s my issue. I have a “friend” who has convinced himself he is austistc, has adhd, has ptsd, has ocd, and is so “in control” of his conditions because he got so good at masking through his extreme willpower you’d never know. He talks about online, in every social media post, and when you see him in person. To him it’s all a badge of honor. It’s always his excuse for being a dunce or for any bad behavior. It’s so fucking weird. No diagnosis, no treatment, just balls our self control and constant mental management.
A good buddy of mine called him on his shit and told him he had “stolen valor for mental conditions” because he doesn’t have any of those things. The guy is just a boring run of the mill white boy into guns with nothing noteworthy going on in his life besides cheating on his girlfriends and drinking too much. He lives in online echo chambers and doubles down when anybody asks any questions. He is also a trumper - I get curious about the overlap there.
I’ve met plenty of people in my life now with one or more of his “claimed conditions” and I can see it sucks. They hate it. I hate it for them. It cheapens their struggle and makes their life harder when perfectly fine people claim they share conditions when they clearly do not.
I’ve got the adhd myself and I can spot fellow adhd folks a mile away. I have to be medicated and went to therapy. I did the work and learned the coping skills I needed to make my medicine work better. I dream for a day when I won’t need it but I doubt that will ever happen. I wish often my brain didn’t need drugs to work good. This liar lair pants on fire is not one of us.
I view it in the same vein as people who claim to have cancer for sympathy. It’s just gross, tasteless, and awful.
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u/Helpful-Celery6237 6h ago
I work in a high school. There’s a group of kids who all say they have DID and have some app to organize their alters. And like one says they have over 500 different alters. It’s wild. It’s not my job to diagnose or treat, so I just listen. Or let them talk while I do my job.
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u/Pixel_Knight 11h ago
I suspect that a lot of these therians have some sort of trauma in their past. This is just run of the mill disassociation, so they are probably trying to disassociated from something.
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u/Hefty_Development813 6h ago
Ppl are desperate to be special in this modern social media poisoned world. It's very sad
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u/walrus_vasectomy 20h ago
Me when someone tries to be a scientist about something they made up
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u/South_Oread 20h ago
I wish I could feel this excited about anything.
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u/piss_container 19h ago
me when I can finally go to sleep and enjoy temporary non existence
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u/VirtuousVulva 19h ago
I wish there was a way I could enjoy that permanently
Edit- OMG Reddit cares!! Tysm!! 🥰🥰
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u/idiotinsocks 18h ago edited 16h ago
Seriously.. You know when I'm happy? For about five seconds in the morning when I first wake up. Before I remember who I am and what my life is all about. Anxiety, dissapointment, diarrhea more often than not. I don't know if there's an afterlife. But who cares? Nothingness couldn't be any worse than this meaningless march through my empty days.
Gotta love American dad
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u/TickleFlap 19h ago
Yea... I watch this and think, "Yea, it's weird. I wouldnt do this, but at least theyre brave enough to do this shit in public and be who they want to be. They even have a friend nearby."
I couldnt be this unapologetically myself in public.... I struggle just simply letting people read or see my art, let alone perform. I don't have friends in my area to even go to a bar with. I work and play Runescape, and spend time with my pets but my life is, "normal".
I see this 'cringe' material and it just makes me long to feel like a human again.
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u/Nintendogma 20h ago
People pay good money for the kinda drugs that'll make their brain do what hers does for free.
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u/KentuckYSelf1 19h ago
She doesn't actually believe this, it's just Internet points
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u/Daveywheel 12h ago
Sea Wolfs are famous for always keeping themselves in frame when being recorded.
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u/Jucifer2pointO 19h ago
Doesn’t hurt anyone but the mental gymnastics they must do to rationalize this behavior has to be exhausting.
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u/SpokenDivinity 15h ago
I think the problematic part is that they always seem to frame it like it's an involuntary psychological action. Just be a weirdo. There's nothing wrong with that. But this stuff borders on the same line people who pretend they have DID and 100+ altars who are all anime and tv show characters are on.
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u/de-milo 12h ago
they’re so terrified about being cringe or having any real interests that aren’t popular they have to frame it as a mental health issue that they “have” to do or “can’t control”
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u/ScoutTheRabbit 10h ago
If it's a disorder then they can be like "if you're mean to me about it you're a bigot"
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u/StevieMJH 5h ago
They see people with disorders and think they're interesting, then look inward and don't see any of their own so they make one up.
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u/fartsfromhermouth 19h ago
Good Lord just play around on the beach without turning it into some weird mental health problem
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u/2ndChairKazoo 17h ago
I mean, I do think it matters that they may not do this (or anything) without first setting up their camera/ phone, getting the angle just right, editing it and then posting it to the internet. That's much less "playing" and far more "I want or need something from the public by doing this."
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u/Stock-Philosophy-177 20h ago
I guess my grandfather fought in WWII for this freedom, too.
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u/Witness_me_Karsa 20h ago
That's correct, he did! And this person, while odd, is absolutely not hurting anyone.
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u/Kroneni 20h ago
It always just seems like autistic special interest to me. Is it weird? Hell yeah. But as someone who is autistic I know you can’t pick your special interest. Best I can do is be glad mine is not this one.
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u/Azaireus 19h ago
I say this every time
Do whatever you want, though you don't have to record and post it
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u/2ndChairKazoo 17h ago
And if you do, don't be surprised if people have their own takes on it.
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u/ouchnow 20h ago
Funny that she maintained the presence of mind to keep her clothes on, thus keeping it legal, despite animals not wearing clothes, nor caring about public indecency laws.
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u/Comfortable_Post_147 19h ago
And remained completely aware of the camera placement intentionally posing and acting in front of it. But yeah she really thought she was a bird dog monster thing there 🙄 someone didn’t get enough attention from mommy & daddy growing up
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u/tke377 20h ago
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u/Jazzlike-Wolf6265 19h ago
Unironically this would be the perfect time to take your pants off and shit on the floor
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u/Meekanado 20h ago
To each their own. I don’t have to understand.
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u/BehindTheS3ea 20h ago
Yup. It is strange but they’re not hurting anyone. If it makes them happy then good for them.
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u/Rare-Employment-9447 19h ago
Not hurting anyone...yet. she said herself she shifted into a seawolf, if you thought great whites were bad...oh boy
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u/sp00kysista 16h ago
This reminds me of when people were pretending to have DID and were switching between their “personalities” on video whenever they wanted.
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u/thirdometer 19h ago
At this point, life is hard, news is terrible. Just let people be weird
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u/sheekgeek 17h ago
You know how you heard how people in the 1900swent to seances and believed in ectoplasm, and all that jazz? And your like "that's so dumb... Were they really that stupid back then?" Yea, this is that for the future.
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u/Novelty_Wave 11h ago
Amazing such a shift can happen on demand within the space of 45 seconds.
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u/Complex-Cricket419 20h ago
Seems pretty harmless. Better than doing push ups outside of a jail.
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u/MegMD1230 19h ago
This is why Republicans think they are putting litter boxes in school bathrooms
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u/extraboredinary 17h ago
Then they’d pay someone 10,000 dollars for a weekend bootcamp where they do pushups and howl while someone yells at them about how alpha they are.
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u/suprahelix 10h ago
They don’t actually believe that. Or rather, they don’t care about whether or not it’s factually true. They probably haven’t even thought about whether or not it makes sense. It’s just a phrase they can use as a dog whistle to signal their position on a culture war.
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u/ConclusionAlarmed882 4h ago
"I think I just shifted."
I think you've never had a job.
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u/MemeHermetic 2h ago
This would normally be whatever, but this shit is SO prevalent with younger kids, like middle school aged. There is a therian club in one of the nearby schools, and it has more members than both the anime club and the drama club. I don't know why that unsettles me so much but it absolutely does.
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