Ever copy a fictional charcter to get along w/others?

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Yeah, it's well hidden . If you put your cursor on the word "this" (in the previous post, not this one) you will find the link there.

Irritating thing with this forum is, links are just in a slightly smaller type, they don't get underlined or anything. It's very easy to miss them.

Oh!! Thank you Echo!! ! Guess I'll have to look more carefully next time

I strongly identify with Ignatius Reilly from A Confederacy of Duncees and Garth from the movie Wayne's World. But they're not models.
I wish I was like Gandalf.

no more identification, i look like the one i am, i cant get a picture about this character thought
i got various models real or fictionnals but the most important is the only true teacher i ever had, MrCC

i do copy fictional characters and when others recognize them it is a bit embarassing. i do not do it often anymore, i just mostly quote famous people.
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And in te words of William Shakespeare, "and the first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers" (lol)

In my teenage years, I built much of my "front" personality around the great James H. Reeve (the nearest thing I have to a hero I suppose) who was then a talk-show host on Radio Piccadilly in Manchester. I used to tape his shows every night, and spent most of my spare time listening to them (it was the only exposure to conversation I ever had at the time) - I ended up subliminally copying his speech patterns, vocabulary, verbosity and mannerisms exactly, and I still speak in the same way to this day..... I'm just glad nobody has ever noticed

I also seem to copy offensive lyrics from Marilyn Manson and 2pac just so that I can piss people off. Ahh, self-made entertainment.
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i have learned to piss people off very well but what is a problem for me now that i know to fight (remember neo? i know kung fu ! show me )
it seems to me that people are at peace between them and that fighting wont help me to get into the pool where they swim in

btw im quite extremist and once i start to do something ill go (run even) into that path, no middle measures

I am right there with you. If I were good at what I was trying to do, I would have been a great method actress. I had a Robert DeNiro thing when I was about 14 (and being a girl, it wasn't so attractive).

I always identified with men and felt empowered covering my absence of personality with a male personna. I'm like a parrot now, I can imitate accents and voices, but I'm really bad at the body mannerisms. I try to be very authentic now, but I was still copying until I was maybe 29 years old. I have to question myself all the time, because I don't know where I stop and the rest of the stuff I pick up begins. It's scary to me.

-Eva

As soon as I read the title of this post, I knew I would click on the link and post a reply. I have done that a lot : I used fictional characters (from books - by Enid Blyton, for instance - and movies) actions and quotes to try to improve my social interaction. I still do that in social interaction occasions when I would be silent or leave otherwise, but I try to be myself as much as I can now.

recently I have been thinking I want to act more like Jack Nicholson. Dude's just a badass, and he doesn't necessarily have to say all that much to let you know that. Just like me, right?

Occaisionally, when on the internet, I copy maddox. Some hate me, some love me, when I do it.

This is basicly how I got along when I was a teenager.

I took parts of characters from books or TV and made them into a personality emulation layer to interact with others.

I must admit that I still do this sometimes. I also tend to answer a lot in quotes from books as my memory retains them very well.

I do that and think up to a point almost everybody does. It's just that with AS people it's more deliberate.

One trick to master is making sure all the parts of the layer fit well together and are used with the right people at the right times, otherwise one might seem Jekyll-and-Hyde or too obviously play-acting: Sherlock Holmes one day, Groucho Marx the next, that sort of thing.

yah, i did. I got better results when I was younger, but not anymore, because im not to good at it

I don't believe I've ever copied fictional characters to gain friends, but I definitely have considered doing so since I'm low on options. The trouble is figuring out which character would be the best choice.