Adolescent egocentrism Essay Example

outward appearance all are subject to the approval of imaginary audience. Case Study 2 the Personal Fable A teenager with personal fable have feelings of nothing bad will happen to me, I am invincible, and untouchable kind of attitude.

A good example will be a sixteen year old foster care child that I took care of when I was working as a social worker. He joined the wrong crowd and started going with his gang to commit robbery at night. He confessed to me about robbing “people that are not smart”, I brought the issue up during out team meeting the child was present at the meeting too. He was very blatant about it, reassuring us that he will never be caught “those that get caught are not smart”.

Even when we threatened to report the issue to the police, he said the police cannot do him anything. He went on another robbery one night and his partner suspects he was going to give up the group because he felt bad they just committed murder in the process unfortunately, he was shot dead at the back of his head by his partner. A lot of teenagers live under this notion that other people can get hurt or caught but not them and this make them to engage in dangerous acts that could kill them or put them away for life.

Sometimes teenagers especially females think their experiences are special; no one can understand what they are going through. I was watching a movie two days ago and a teenager caught her boyfriend with another girl in a restaurant, she broke up with

him and was starving herself to death at home. Despite her mother’s affection towards her she said “you don’t know what I am going through my heart hurts so bad I can’t take it anymore”. This is typical of a teenager going through personal fable.