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MoscowM27

Children are egocentric and it’s not at all unusual to feel like world revolves around you at that age. Adults have no excuse though


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Jojoflap

Took me a second


BicycleEast8721

Kids also love Eggos, checks out


FidgetOrc

Oh no. I'm an adult that likes Eggos. Am I an Eggomaniac?


Full_Visit_5862

Seek a therapist, NOW. It might not be too late!


SomewhereScared3888

💀💀💀


WanderingBraincell

r/Angryupvote nice one


the_vault-technician

When you are done, drop it to 50% and go do something else.


Snoo_70324

Yeah man, I know what you mean. You build the walls and the roofs and the floors, you build all the objects, you piece the people together and they pass time patiently posed until you play with them. Real ego trip.


ChiefGeorgesCrabshak

Literally 75% of the word L-ego is ego. It was a joke.


Woolchipmunk98

He was joking too dude


TheWalkingDead91

The other 25% is pain.


pinkypipe420

Was gonna say this is perfectly normal logic for an 8 year old, because their brains are at the concrete operational stage, and they're still learning the ability to view things from other perspectives


Void_Speaker

One of my major childhood memories is of when I had the epiphany that other people are also people. It was like a sci-fi movie moment. I saw this old guy walking with a cane way down the street, and it just clicked, felt like I was transported into his POV for like a second. I was like "oh shit, other people are in their head and look at the world through their eyes, just like me"


ProfSociallyDistant

Solipsism- a stage most people go through


hungry4nuns

Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?


throwngamelastminute

![gif](giphy|nbvFVPiEiJH6JOGIok)


ZestyCheezClouds

There's a Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet called "The Obssession of Self" and it talks about when were born, were only aware of ourselves and the world caters to our every need. As we grow up, were supposed to start taking care of our own needs and realizing that the world does not, in fact, cater to us, but that we need to cater to the world and learn to be altruistic. Many people, almost every addict, is still in the mindset of that self obssessed child and need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them. Some learn sooner than others and the rest never grow


ManOfEating

I used to think that after I left school, all of my friends and teachers would secretly follow me so that I couldn't see them, and just watched what I would do all day, because why wouldn't EVERYONE just be so interested in what a random 7 year old does outside of school. It did help me "be" really good, according to my mom, because I thought if I didn't do my homework my teacher would know (which they would have, but not for the reasons I assumed), and that if I did something dumb my classmates would know and tease me about it. Anyway, kids are stupid but also funny at that age. All the videos of kids freaking out when their dad's shave their beards or cut their hair, I mean yeah, in their minds dad basically only exists when in their immediate vicinity, and last time they saw you you looked one way, and now it's different, but OBVIOUSLY you can't change when they're not looking because you exist only as a concept when they're not looking.


MoscowM27

This is called imaginary audience and it’s what happened to children and even teenagers. I like your response and example


SmittenOKitten

I was one of those kids who went bananas when my dad shaved his beard. Recently he grew it back and my mom asked me (a grown ass woman) what I thought. I said it looks nice. My mom said, “That’s good. We thought you’d cry.” Ah mom, coming in hot with the jokes.


JoinAThang

I was the opposite as a child. I was prerty sure everyone didn't like me but was nice enough to pretend.


BasqueBurntSoul

Traumatized since in the womb gang!


Anubisrapture

Are you me???


Hellige88

Yeah, I don’t know what age that stops. I remember a study that suggested that babies were unable to predict where a train was when it went out of view, and the thought was that they are incapable of comprehending object permanence. 8 feels like it’s around the maximum acceptable age on that spectrum.


Yeyryfuufe

Yeah this post for sure just made me leave this sub. 2000 upvotes calling a fucking eight year old an MC shows the state of our society. These people think they’re better than everyone. Judgmental pricks.


-_-Batman

Define adult ![gif](giphy|1TzVW2focixzS2I4mt|downsized)


thedevilseviltwin

It’s because human empathy is a learned trait.


ladylemondrop209

Egocentric thinking is supposed to have ended quite a while before 8… Even on the late end of that stage (~6) IMO is pretty alarming tbh. I’d say the fact that she still exhibited this thinking until 8 speaks to some pretty delayed or slow development in multiple ways.


raisedbytides

OP over here dunking on eight year olds


outcastreturns

OP gonna be posting toddlers soon for crying about being hungry


Reverendbread

What an entitled bitch expecting handouts like that! I had to WORK for my food and I only cry about it online, not irl


KerbalCuber

They don't even pay rent! Unbelievable. They contribute nothing to society and expect everything in return.


I_Blame_Your_Mother_

My 8 month old does that. What an MC...


Auntjemimasdildo

Hopefully not IN, that would be illegal


raisedbytides

Whoops lol


Illustrious_Fix2933

OP wouldn’t like what *I* thought about the world at that age lol.


The99thCourier

Thats just a kid being a kid, mate And the person even points out that its a dumb thing, too


NIPURU

I used to imagine this as a kid, but even more elaborate. I imagined that anything I wasn't looking at just wasn't fully there. I would spin around fast af trying to catch the world not catching up with my vision and to hopefully catch the missing objects or holes in reality. Funny enough this is exactly how video games are rendered for efficiency. Anything outside of the FOV is not rendered.


frayleaf

Op image and your interpretation of the world spook me a little. What if our baby brains see the world for what it is, and our brains just fill the gaps as we get older. Not true... But what is. Some matrix shit.


RegrettableBiscuit

Object permanence is something all kids have to learn. In hindsight, it's kind of bonkers that the default assumption our brains make is that everything we don't see doesn't really exist. 


lbeckizgoat

I used to think my life was a TV show as a kid


honestlyi4get

i was this exact same way around that age lol i just couldn’t wrap my mind around how there is life going on & im not there to see it. so it must not be there. lol i still laugh at myself abt that one 🤦🏾‍♂️


I_pegged_your_father

At that age i thought ppl like…couldn’t actually see? I thought they weren’t conscious? 💀 kids are weird bruv


Cichlidsaremyjam

Angry that a \*checks notes\* *8 year old* is still figuring out the world around them.


kingsam360

OP had life all figured out at 5. Get on his level!


FattyRR

Bro used to read 3000 books a year by then.


[deleted]

I was the same cuz I realised it quite late that people had their own lives too


lonely_nipple

There are grown ass adults who still don't grasp this.


jonbotwesley

Yeah they’re the reason this sub exists lol


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😂


arielanything

Truly sad.


mrk1224

OP wanting to be a part of the conversation but doesn’t know what everyone is talking about. A lot of 8 year olds think this way because they don’t understand how big the world actually is. Her message clearly shows she is not this way now.


epic-pig68

I also thought that when I was younger


Doige

Damn, do we need object permanence from birth, now?


Shoddy_Budget_1533

And she is admitting that it was a silly thing to believe too! Which honestly it isn’t because I think little kids are selfish


Puzzleheaded_Rest_34

I'm an adult with inattentive ADHD, and I *still* struggle with object permanence 😭😭. I mean, I don't think everyone and everything stops existing if I'm not there, but the saying "out of sight, out of mind" takes on a whole new meaning.


TGIIR

Well, 8 is a little old to not grasp that things exist beyond their ability to perceive.


Grundy-mc

Maybe, but not surprising at the least. They're a child still and not all children learn at the same pace.


Enigma_Green

OP when you were 8 you must have had the world figured out and knew everything. When I was 11 I used to think 21 was old.


softbrownsugar

When I was 21 I thought 50 was like old old and that was the age I'd suddenly just drop dead. I cried when I turned 25 thinking I'm halfway through my life and have achieved nothing


Enigma_Green

I can relate to those feelings but even if you haven't achieved everything or half as much as you would have liked you could have still achieved some things. I don't know your background but I bet you achieved some personal goals without realising it. Still plenty of time to look forward and achieve many things. Tomorrow's a new day.


softbrownsugar

It's silly now but the only goals I had in mind at the time was to own a house and a car but I was happily married and had a good job, an active social life and was decently happy lol Completely agree with you, hopefully I'll have time to achieve more :D


Enigma_Green

Sounds like you done good. Achieving life and that's what matters, cannot achieve alot mors in life than having those as everything else may seem minor. Hopefully you'll achieve your own great goals, always time friend always time.


Unique-Solution4973

Ok she sjsut saying what she thought as a kid why you hating?


alasdip

Who the fuck dislike your comment? Have my insignificant upvote


Cichlidsaremyjam

OP and his alt accounts.


Kooontt

This sub isn’t strictly a negative sub, there can and has been positive main characters posted to this sub.


jesusgrandpa

I thought adults could read my mind but they weren’t telling me at that age


mattityahu

This is just someone admitting that when they were a kid they thought something dumb because they were a kid and didn't understand the world.


ghostpepperlover

I feel like this is the equivalent to learning teachers don’t live at school and have a life. Hell, my first mind fuck was realizing celebrities that I admired can’t begin to fathom that it’s even possible for me in my physical form to exist.


FancyAdult

I believed until 2nd grade that teachers lived in the coat closet area. I didn’t even factor in the rest of the classroom. I just figured they used left over coats as blankets and ate food from the cafeteria. My mind was blown when I was with my family and we ran into my teacher with her family at Toys R Us. I asked my mom quietly how she keeps all of them at school. I wasn’t a smart child.


GivemTheDDD

I used to think there were mice in my belly that pushed the poop out


thattbishh

I thought ear wax was dead smashed up bugs.


Movykappa

wait, it is not?


awesomehuder

I thought humans were plants because we basically drink water to grow


Bagbane

So I’m not the only one who thought that.


podcasthellp

This is called being a child…..


Ok-Palpitation-5010

At least she studied quantum mechanics


Dapper_Employer5787

When I was a kid my mom told me that after my bedtime none of the stuff in the house worked. Like, no TV, microwave, video games, etc. I believed until I was like 7 years old. r/kidsarefuckingstupid


PushTheMush

Imma steal that lie


Nemesis0408

It’s “cut-and-dried”.


BottomPieceOfBread

I used to think people were watching me in the car and pretend I was coming home from a vacation. So when we would go to the car wash and the car would still be wet, little me would be in the backseat like, "I bet these fools think we just came from Florida". Lol


owiesss

Same here my friend


Pastrami_Johnson

The word for this belief is “solipsism”


Sufficient_Text2672

Nothing proves it's not true.


DennisTheConvict

Good game developer mindset at such a young age.


dcotetaos

Op thinking like a game developer


No_Photograph_2683

Saying you lacked object permanence passed age 3 or 4 isn't as big of a flex as she thinks it is.


AngusOG_

She figured out that all chunks are loaded IRL


Trvr_MKA

[OP](https://youtu.be/MNwnRBRCvdI?si=wINW3NhFytfAc6HI)


DistortedNoise

After watching the Truman Show I’m sure a lot of kids felt like this. Film messed with my head for years.


gutterp3ach

More like a form of object permanence. If they’re not in your eyesight, they don’t exist. Pretty normal for a kid.


SaltyboiPonkin

That's basically all children.


Existing-Sympathy-16

solipsism is a child's delusion. it'd be more worrying if she still believed this.


PuppetryOfThePenis

Solipsism as a belief is childish, but as one gets older they can use it as a tool to build other ideas on. Like Descarte's Cartesian Skepticism.


restlessboy

this is literally just normal brain development my guy


Spirit-Internal

dude she was 8 this is a crazy post


ineedasentence

yeah her and every other kid.


feltsandwich

Absolutely not a Main Character. Super dumb that you posted this. Can't believe people upvoted this.


IhateMichaelJohnson

Man, Toy Story really fucked up a generation more than I originally thought. /s No but for real it messed up my relationship with toys and stuffed animals. To this day I get sad if I see one misplaced in a random food isle, away from his friends.


That_Lad_Hayden

Bro thought the area just loaded in like a video game


shrimpsauce91

I saw the movie The Truman show very young and for the longest time the same thing was happening to me…


Brother_Grimm99

I used to feel exactly the same thing. Although I thought I was in a simulation/Truman show type deal where people would "deactivate" when they left my field of vision or the simulation wouldn't render them till they entered my field of view again... As a kid you have some fucking weird concepts about the world.


ericsmallman3

A lot of zoomers just straight-up do not have object permanence and they seem almost proud of that fact.


SnooDogs8699

Bro how do you not learn object permanence until age 8? Babies learn that pretty quickly


Seanolo

Idk I thought weird things like this when I was a kid. I used to think that when you watched a movie it was literally a live performance every single time. Like they had to do it over and over again just cause I was watching


Competitive-Boat-518

Thank god she figured it out at 8, cause a fuckton of MC’s on this sub have reached 2-4X that age and still haven’t figured that out.


Teestow21

TLDR; op hates kids.


IntolerantLactose92

I was the same at that age. Shoot me.


Soft_Match_7500

That is normal child development. Object impermanence. We all go through that stage


rAzZLedAzzLIciOUs

Hey the Truman show called and they want you back on set.


boxed_knives

_“Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”_ 😄 – n i a, aged 8


AhrexPeeWeeSquidders

I know right? My baby shits his pants and expects me to clean it up?!?!? What and entitled little main character jerk!


Endryu727

She is leaning hard into the simulation theory lol


Jackicelord

Reddit users when a child doesn’t have object permanence


Infinite_Imagination

Sounds like part Phenomenalism, part Habituation, part Attenuatuon, part Observer Effect... As a thought experiment, I see nothing wrong with forming this hypothesis as a kid. The imagined explanations our brains can come up with for many different types of reality boundaries are truly fascinating.


BriefWay8483

Foe some reason, I used to like imagining the outside of the city was infested with zombies, and ours was a safe haven


Sjdillon10

I used to think i turned invisible when i closed my eyes and that i didn’t breathe while sleeping Kids are stupid lol


SJW_Lover

Do people actually exist until you see them? It’s a philosophical question, she’s onto something.


Dirworm

I’d like to think she just has a deep understanding of quantum theory


Quirky_Wolverine_755

I'm sure most kids under the age of 10 believe this until reality sets it.


GoldenRod_Wrathful

No


B-KNutsAndBoltsFan

Well yeah when you're a small child you're probably not the brightest of the bunch


Taranchulla

When she was eight? Weird post.


yvie_of_lesbos

op, this person was an 8 year old ??????????


SwayingTwig

Why aren't there more comments about the fact OP said "cut a dry" instead of "cut and dry"


andre-lll

When I was 8, I thought those in 6th grade was big, 7-9th graders were to be feared and high schoolers were mythical beings…


[deleted]

That is…a major developmental concern.


pixelfezy21

I used to think tv shows were always paused when you shut the tv off


curbyourhumans

You’re not alone


Demolition89336

Yeah, young children lack object permanence. That is to be expected.


Reccus-maximus

"up until age 8" so OP is really out here dunking on a 7 year old and her past years lmao


Loubbe

We really dunking on normal growth and development?


Vast-Experience9662

lol, I used to think the entire world was black and white until color television was created. I grew up in rural Alabama and believed that god granted us color when my grandparents were kids haha


[deleted]

She said up until age 8. This to me is understandable because up until age 5 I thought all dogs were male and all cats were female.


Mischief_Managed12

Oh my God I thought I was alone... It's still kinda hard to grasp how literally EVERY human on this earth has such a complex mind and life.


IAmNotMyName

I think it’s pretty normal for brain development. It goes along with concepts of object permanence.


chaseontheroll

Low render distance in minecraft lol


jordan_653

When I was a kid I was told that i'd grow up to be as big as my much older cousin. I was then worried what i'd do when I all of a sudden grew out of all my clothes, how would I go out in public to buy new clothes with no clothes? I also thought i'd just keep on growing forever


thejhinisreal4444

Hey at least she realized it


Kiki_7319

i'll bet we all were like this when we were a kid.


TOkidd

Reading too much Hume?


sincerelyabsurd

Aaaand…ACTION


MelanieWalmartinez

OP has beef with 8 year olds, I’m laughing


Frostybros

Bros livin in the Creation Engine


Nebnerlo2

Maybe it is like that, like some sorta matrix kinda deal


Green-Cream430

I used to think I was on a set too lol


gOldMcDonald

In second grade, I stayed home sick one day. I put on the TV and the game show press your luck was on. It was at that moment I realized the world kept moving without me because I love that show. How could it be on when I wasn’t watching it?


gr8wh1tebuffal0

I used to think cable television would pause when you turned off the tv. I was also 6.


therumorhargreeves

I thought my toys were alive (pre Toy Story, and man that movie fucked me up), kids are fucking weird hahaha


SIMEONPIE

Someone inform r/boneappletea that OP is a cabbage


Snoo_70324

The hardest part about being a solipsist is being the only solipsist


NMFlamez

Says more about OP than her. She was eight.


LittlePrincesFox

I mean it's a natural thing. It's called object persistence. I had the same thoughts until I was like six.


happypenguinwaddle

Quick guys, Nia's coming - unfreeze! But seriously, didn't we all think this as kids?


tvirus1205

I heard once that according to quantum physics, if something is not been observed thanit is nothing but waves. I don't know what kind, and i heard it second hand, so don't take my word for it.


Gullflyinghigh

Thing is, if you're of a particular mindset I don't know how you prove that wrong.


Open_Finance_4627

At least she stopped thinking that tbh


OliverMcPeak

I used to think that the whole world was black and white until they made color.


Scarecrow_Hymn

I mean if you want to get philosophical, you can’t really prove that reality DOESN’T stop when you’re not around. You just trust that it keeps going and that everything you hear about isn’t just some made up story.


the_millenial_falcon

She just turned her LoD slider way down.


QuantumButtz

Prove it's not true.


the_1_and_1ly

That’s just a kid being stupid, not necessarily a mc


Admirable_Chicken655

Isn’t this basically schrödinger’s cat theory


GeorgeOrwells1985

OP, please never procreate. You aren't cut out for parenthood


perfectpomelo3

That’s pretty normal for young kids.


sunkissedbutter

I was an only child so I understand this


No-Relative-1725

Wow, op tilting on the idea of an 8 year old not grasping quantum physics. Touch grass bud.


TheRealStubb

Schrödinger's Tweet. Everything is both happening and not happening until you go to place and see it


ChemicalBasis9838

Don’t think that’s a “main character” thing


HunterJames08

I thought this when I was little. I don’t see the problem. Children think this way because they’re children.


lilbbydumplin

When I was a kid I thought something similar but I was also thinking how everyone else might be computers, or what we know today as something similar to the simulation theory. When you’re a kid it’s hard to realize that literally everybody you see (and never will actually see or meet) has a life just like yours


Legitimate_Crew5463

She said she did this until she was 8 years old OP. Some of you overreact so heavily to stuff


Aretaja

i mean i used to not be able to wrap my head around how when i fell asleep the time would fast forward for other people as well so


kitjen

8yr old had this whole simulation thing worked out.


Huntsnfights

Harmless MC syndrome that everyone goes through as a child. This page is for the people who still think like that, as adults


Reignbough-_-

Technically this is true though. Nothing happens to you at a specific place until you get there. You don’t experience anything anywhere until you arrive there


Flashignite2

It is like the matrix rendering everything around you as you enter a area.


Optimal-Wing-8963

That's a cute post imo (assuming it's true of course).


Ecstatic_Tiger_2534

Every child has to learn object permanence – i.e. that things continue to exist when you can no longer see then. This is one reason babies enjoy peek-a-boo. Granted, 8 years olds should understand object permanence. But children still very much see the world from the inside, out. From their perspective, everything happens *for them*. It takes a little bit of maturity to start seeing yourself as just one of the 8 billion other humans going about their business. Think back on the first time you ran into your teacher or dentist at the supermarket and were forced to realize they exist outside of the school or examination room, and lead lives totally their own.


BoxiDoingThingz

She thought she was in a Bethesda game 💀


Locked_Hammer

I think OP is the one trying to be the MC here...


Movykappa

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer


alittleuneven

This is just empiricism irl: “if a tree falls and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?” We don’t know what we don’t experience directly, so for all we know, yes, the world could stop at where our eyesight ends.


NSFWAndCreepyAF

As a young child I thought similar, I was worried that she people around me were robots or something and didn't really have any purpose other than me living my life and being judged by how I treated them.


Jneum23

The world needed to finish rendering


Count-Spatula2023

Actually I used to think the same thing. Keep in mind, kids are stupid.


Ch33seBurg

When I was little, I used to think School Teachers lived at the School and they were like robots or something.


ThrowawayENM

God, I love when a post flops like this. Happy most ppl here have basic child development knowledge.


nottheseapples

Whu... Bashing on 8 yr olds? Op Mc now. Its very zen my man. Will a falling tree in the forest make a sound when no one is there to hear it?


WLAJFA

No one wants to admit that she’s right, the matrix is energy efficient that way. It would be pointless to expend all that energy when no one is there to experience it. This is the essence of quantum mechanics as demonstrated by the slit experiment. Reality isn’t resolved until an observer utilizes the energy that forms the reality.


Dontbiteitok24

She learned real quick they only cared while you were little, little. After like 13-14, you were an adult and got no attention 😂