Main Character Syndrome

Main character syndrome is the internet's diagnosis for people who treat the world as their supporting cast: queues as obstacles, staff as NPCs, other people's weddings as their stage. It is vocabulary, not psychiatry — but it names the engine of an entire story genre. The accounts filed under it here are witness testimony from the supporting cast: the scene, the demand, the meltdown when reality declined the role. Readers vote true or fake with unusual confidence, because everyone has met one.

Related on this site: /entitled-people-stories/ /tag/karen/ /tag/entitled-parents/