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DAE experience that weird social echo where someone repeats your story as their own?
It happened again at a party last night. I shared a personal anecdote, and minutes later, someone else recounted it with slight alterations, claiming it as their experience. This kind of unconscious mimicry really highlights how fragile our sense of identity can be in social settings.
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aaron15011d ago
Yeah, the "almost word for word" thing is wild. I caught myself doing a milder version once, telling a friend's funny party story back to them a week later like it was my own. My brain just fully downloaded their memory and deleted the source file. We both just stood there realizing how flimsy my grip on reality is.
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samflores12d ago
My friend Lisa had her coworker retell her own stressful airport story at a team lunch last week, almost word for word. She just sat there stirring her drink, totally baffled. It was so blatant the whole table went quiet for a second.
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wren_thompson12d ago
That "stirring her drink" detail says it all, I mean, what else can you even do? It's one thing to borrow a punchline, but to outright shoplift someone's entire mundane anecdote, like a stressful airport delay? At least steal something cool, idk. The audacity to do it right in front of them, too, it's like a weird, low-stakes identity heist. Maybe it's just me, but I'd almost be impressed by the lack of self-awareness.
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