I just read a comment about me where someone said I "host a party in France". I don't - I help out a bit and attend it, but I don't host it. This is an example of the constant mild inaccuracy I see when people talk about me and my life online. Usually it's not significant, but-
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I have a general sense of my identity separating from me; there's a new character, existing like a phantom in the collective minds of people who see snippets about me on the internet. I don't have a lot of control over this character, and it's strange it's associated with me.
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Usually these misconceptions are mild, but sometimes people do the psychoanalyzing thing - they claim (again, confidently), that they know my motivations for things, they can trace the cause of my actions from my history, they can read my body language to understand-
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me better than I know myself. This is a bit annoying, because I know it's not something I can easily correct for them. I serve to reinforce the narratives they have about the world, and any attempt to say "actually no" will be rewritten into simply reinforcing what they believe.
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Most people lack wide and deep knowledge of human behavior, and as a result have simplistic models of other persons’ motivations, usually based on their own experience. Overconfidence about their own models arises inevitably from this.
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a lot of people apparently assume "i think" is implied, something something have to project confidence, but then how do you tell how serious someone is when they say things ??
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