[ SECRET POST #6441 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6441 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same. I've read and identified with a few books with characters who are like me, certainly, but I read to experience another sort of life/journey/experiences. I already know what I'm like, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I already know me, I'm boring. I want to read about people not like me.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS so much. I couldn't be less interested in reading about people like me.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind if they share some similarities to myself, but I wouldn't want to read about a character who's too much like me. I read for escapism, so not interested in reading about a fictional character's struggles with depression and familial dysfunction, that doesn't sound fun at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been interested in reading about people like me, I'm a regular person in the real world who went to school and then grew up to have a job and a fairly standard but not exciting life. I don't want to read/watch that, I want to engage with stories about people with different experiences or going on adventures I never will. Because that's fun.

I like my life, but I would't want to read about it. xD

[feotakahari]

I don’t feel this one myself.

I guess I don’t see myself from my own perspective. To me, “like Feo” is “someone a cis person would say is like Feo.” And from that perspective, a trans man is like Feo, a trans woman is like Feo, a genderfluid person is like Feo . . . So there are a lot of different kinds of people who are “like me,” and when a story doesn’t have any of them, I end up thinking “Where is everyone?”

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the sentiment and feel the same most of the time (although occasionally I'm in the mood to read about someone "like me" and it would suck if I never had the option) but people who make it a point to say this are usually humblebragging and trying to make people who do prefer characters "like them" out to be insecure babies, so...

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like you're digging for a reason to be offended by this.

[(Anonymous)]

I admit I kinda wish I had this problem. The only books with characters even remotely like me are likely written in Dutch and hard to obtain outside the EU. US publishers aren't exactly presented with big market for books with/about Indo characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I like reading about different viewpoints and experiences, but I also like reading books where the characters share some similarities with me. Not everything, but one or two things is nice. The only one I have a hard time with is when characters are ace like me. I know it’s a me problem, but I haven’t read a single book featuring an ace character that clicked with me.

[(Anonymous)]

What, you don't spend all your time talking and/or inner-monologuing about how you're ace and other people aren't and how inscrutable it all is?

[(Anonymous)]

I still want to find "me" in a story, there have been a lot stories and characters I can relate to, but not quite "me".

Although, I do also hope/am grateful for media younger me would have loved. A little disappointed it didn't exist when I was the target age for just that sort of thing, but rather late than never for all the young kids who are going through what I did when I was their age seeing themselves represented.