i often like imagining everyone around me, including the elderly, are all my age and just wearing costumes and makeup
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Those "kid costumes" are very realistic, not sure how they change their size like that. :P
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I think I believe that’s the case? Like if they aren’t burdened by unresolved trauma then I think they really do feel just like… a person
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This reminds me of a scenario in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan, which is one of my favourite novels.
The followers of the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent wear weights or ugly make-up and clothes to cancel out their physical advantages and make themselves truly equal.
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Older people often very much are their younger selves in a now unrecognizable body
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do you do that for just kicks or also for something deeper?
doing it for kicks sounds funny, but I feel like this would also make you a more empathetic person. esp with kids which are relatively easy to look down on otherwise
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babies are animatronic drones remotely operated by people your age sitting in vr computers
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