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Is there a word for the condition somebody has when he thinks, "this is the way I think, therefore everyone thinks this way," or, "this is the way I do things so if other people don't do it this way, they're idiots." Or, "since it's not tough for me to eat small amounts of food, then it's not tough for anyone to eat small amounts of food?" It has something to do with Narcissism, but it's more like assuming everyone is like yourself and if they're not there is something wrong with them.
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Egotism might be close to what you're looking for. I tend to think of it as a symptom of what I call the Golden Rule Fallacy. Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you assumes that everyone wants the same things.
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or maybe egoism.
egotism - an exaggerated sense of self-importance
egoism - a preoccupation with self-interest
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Maybe egoism, egocentrism, egotism does not have the same connotation as in D.?, where it is mostly associated with ungenerousness, greed, refusal to share.(egotism comes closest though).
One can be generous, sharing and caring and still be little open to other people's ideas, wishes and such.
We use the word 'tunnel view' for an extreme lack of understanding for ideas that differ from one's own. I could not find the word in the online English dictionaries, so it is a faux English word. But we use it like " He /she suffers from tunnel view."
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Tunnel vision is the way we usually say it. It can be literal, a defect of the eye, or metaphorical.
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Thank you, I'll try to remember. I would never say 'A Room with
a Vision'. I understand now where I am wrong.
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Is there a word for the condition somebody has when he thinks, "this is the way I think, therefore everyone thinks this way," or, "this is the way I do things so if other people don't do it this way, they're idiots." Or, "since it's not tough for me to eat small amounts of food, then it's not tough for anyone to eat small amounts of food?" It has something to do with Narcissism, but it's more like assuming everyone is like yourself and if they're not there is something wrong with them. It sounds like "self-importace" to me. noun: an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others It could also be "solipsism" noun: the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
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