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For some reason anime seems to mess with my personality. granted I am still the same in front of most people (shy, untalking, uninterested, etc). Like, if I watch, for example, stein from Soul eater last, I will start acting more like a evil scientist, but if I see crona from soul eater last, or luffy from one piece, etc, I will start acting more like them.

anyone else have different forms of personality based on the anime they watch, read, etc?

me and a old friend of mine used to kinda have this i think we acted like anime characters in our social groups but it wasn't realy something we noticed... i think its a nice way of behaving though ads some colour to the day

based on watching TV, No.

Based on different situations requiring a different approach, Yes.

This is why they ban certain video games from the market.

perhaps the anime characters are your social role models. Maybe they are teaching you social skills and you are unaware of this.
I used to use book characters and musicians as social role models.
You probably just have a very vivad imagination. I do too and some people think that aspies have no imagination which is obviously incorrect.

AH, you're switching hats! I do this for fun but for some I hear it's some sort of reflex reaction. Found normally in people who don't know quite who they are or want to be so they have the best of both worlds, or many!

I used to do this constantly as a child. I picked up social skills and studied people by mimicking them - practicing their facial expressions when I would think about conversations I had with them and things like that. It was especially easy for me to pick up on and mimic the traits of people I'd read about in books or seen in anime. It's hard to believe I never consciously realized what I was doing and why.

That makes me wonder how my life would have been like without anime... I have found that it is easier to read expressions, and look at eyes, and how to act towards people through the use of anime. Granted doing such things with people in real life is a much harder thing to do.

Me in my mind/online "HEEEY! How are you? I have not seen you in ForEVER! hahahahaha!"

Me in real life: "............................................................................ hi...................."

It's nice to know I'm not the only person who does this. I do this even with shows/movies that aren't my special interests.

Last summer, after I watched the movie Wilde (an Oscar Wilde biopic starring Stephen Fry in the lead role), I went around feeling like I was Oscar Wilde for the rest of the day. During this time I was actually surprised to see my own reflection in the mirror, as I half-expected it to be his instead.

One day last week, I felt like I was Sterling Archer from the animated spy comedy show Archer after watching it one night before going to bed. I even adopted his manner of speech!

There are other examples, I'm sure, but those are the ones that stick out the most in my memory.

I find it interesting that even though I'm female, most of my fictional role models over the years have been male. I feel pretty androgynous on the inside, and everyone says that my behavior is neither male nor female.

I'm reviving this extinct thread because I came across it during a search and I've never seen anyone else discuss this issue before, certainly not with regards to asperger's/autism.

I've felt like I "change hats" my whole life. I'm very easily influenced by things I read or, moreso, watch. Particularly if I see a person whom I think of as a role model (either the actor/real person or the character if it's fiction), I tend to adopt that person's mannerisms, style of speech, attitude for a while until something else takes over or I forget about it.

That's exactly how it is for me. I sometimes start wondering if I look a little bit like the person and feeling like we must be "kindred spirits" or something. Then I wonder if other people are noticing the similarity and then I start to feel embarrassed



Same here. I don't really have any female role models and haven't since puberty. I too am fairly androgynous and I guess I always think that females act too feminine and stereotyped to be role models for me. I have kind of a problem, though, in that I often find the fictional or real people whom I emulate are often also those I am attracted to. It becomes rather confusing.

(Oh, and Wilde is a good movie. Fry ftw... I will watch anything with him in it.)

I slowly adopt the speaking habits of whoever I talk to, and occasionally strongly acted characters in movies. Not sure if it's an AS thing though, since it's actually socially useful and I don't have to try to make it work.

i also do this, to an extent.
i cannot trace the modes to their respective origins, i guess i mix-and-match them, but i do indeed change personalities depending on the group i'm in.
actually, this has thrown me into a meltdown a few times when 2 groups i have a seperate personality for suddenly mixed together unexpectedly; so in a reflex, i tried to adopt both personalities at once, something that is, obviously, not possible...

I've got the same. I don't even consciously decide to adopt it, it just happens without giving it any thought. I'm very easily influenced by other people anyway, perhaps it has something to do with me being hypersensitive too.

Occasionally I am inspired by a hero in a story, and it gives me a little more energy and perseverance than I would otherwise have had. Does that count?

Tony Attwood lists imitation as a compensatory mechanism. Often this is through copying other socially successful people or mimicking speech patterns from films or soap operas. So this seems to have been around and recognised for a while.

Jason

I do this so hard with video games sometimes. A video game with a strong main character and story is so much more immersing than a book or movie. They get me role playing hard enough to alter my POV for a while sometimes xd

Books used to be able to do it too, but I focus too much on interpreting multiple levels of literary meaning to get quite as hard into character as I used to for them. It was a crazy time jumping into Stephen King in middle school...

Good, long running television shows can do it too, which brings me to my next point... TROY AND ABED IN THE MOOORRRNING!