thaison

You know what’s funny seeing this fake 19 y.o repeated the words “19”, and “high school” four times this week alone. I never had to mention my age once when I was a teenager. I expected to be given a lot of slack from everyone. That was just the reality I lived in. In fact, if you are advanced for your age, you have the exact opposite problem. People don’t take you seriously enough. Especially in a very hierarchical culture like Asia. They would want to give you the best education programs for your advance technical abilities. But they also don't trust you with your life decisions or actual technical depth.

So the fact that this person has to constantly remind people these keywords tells you about the reality they are actually living in. Where they are expected to be more competent and have an actual productive to-do list. Because they are an underachieved 45 y.o freelancer without regular paid work.

Here’s the formula:

Trigger → Reality Shame ← Public Broadcast

Most people only see the public broadcast. Without understanding the mechanism, you probably don't even look for the triggers. But if you know the triggers and the invented narratives, you can reverse to find out the truth.

So that was my tutorial on how to find the truth in a borderline’s lie.

No — you are not imagining it. The 19 y.o treats people according to their follower counts.

I would like to say that I wrote the post about borderline mimicry before everything happened, just to show how spot on I am all the time.

And noticed how I mentioned they identified with someone's favorite drink or their jobs, because those are superficial observation. They, for example, can't understand the words “trustworthy” or “reliable”. You can only understand them if you have a reference point to yourself about your standard, what you want, who you are, what make you feel safe. But when you have none of these things, you see someone with obvious metric like money or popularity as the evidence for standard behaviors for everyone else to follow.

So there you go. The 19 y.o finally admitted he mimicked someone else’s personality. This case is too easy.

I actually went home by bus yesterday. If I'm out after 8 PM, I will probably be somewhere around the city center in crowded places and will use the bus to head home.

It actually makes me feel better knowing that only I knows my tutor is super sweet and caring. Whereas normal people only see the gatekeeping treatment.

It was actually very OK performance. And they were very popular too, once I searched them on Google. Cuz I was kind of worried when they asked the audience to sing along and the camera was right there. But turned out, people in the front row all knew the lyrics. So that was comforting.

I’m home now. That's enough of supporting the local entertainment industry for this year.

Seeing this couple wearing crypto merch. Have to admire the love with revolutionary theme.