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Imaginary Audience And Personal Fable Analysis

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David Elkind describes adolescent egocentrism in two different components – imaginary audience and personal fable. These two components can be seen in an adolescent’s daily life. Furthermore, imaginary audience and personal fable explains why some teenagers do what they do. Imaginary audience is when adolescents’ believe others are intrigued in them and what they do. It can be seen as an attention-getting behavior. Teenagers tend to do certain things to be noticed by others around them. An example, would be a time when my classmate, Jason, decided to do tricks on a skateboard down our stairs of one of our buildings. He fell off the skateboard and tumbled down the stairs. His head was bleeding but he didn’t care. Instead he stood up with both hands and yelled, “YES! Did you see that?! You saw that right?! Wasn’t that cool?!” A couple days later, he came back …show more content…

An example of personal fable is when I was in the car with my friend, Kyle, who was racing. I was holding onto the handle asking him to slow down and how he should not race with his friends because this is not my idea of a fun night. However, Kyle refused to stop and he yelled excitingly, “This is fun!!! You don’t know how amazing it feels to be behind the wheel racing!!!” When I told him that it was dangerous for him, myself, and everyone around us because we can get into a car accident causing injuries to ourselves and others. However, he continued to argue saying that he is an amazing driver and has good eyes which can see everything around him so he will not get into any car accidents unlike others who were bad drivers. Kyle had a sense of uniqueness when he believed that I do not understand how fun it is to be racing since I am not the one controlling the car. Lastly, Kyle felt a sense of invulnerability because he believes that he is an amazing driver unlike others who got in a car accident so he will not crash his

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