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[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

one good description is seeing everyone else as an NPC in a game or an extra in a play

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Last Psychiatrist likened it to treating all your friends like the "girl friend" in a romcom, the "bestie" who gets no plot or interiority of her own. She's just a mechanism for advancing the protagonist through the story.