Parasocial relationships are when someone gorges themselves on an experience of someone else in a way that’s disjoint from present time and space, separate from direct experience of the other as they presently exist.
how do you deal with that, if someone is directing that energy at you?
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Tweet · Jan 30, 2023have been ig on the other end of someone's parasocial relationship with me recently... it's a weird experience, flickers of attention and odd behavior…Tweet · Feb 28, 2024pls mansplain parasocial relationships to me?Tweet · Mar 6, 2025how do you feel about being the focus of parasocial energy?Reply · Nov 5, 2023@a_musingcat 🫶 same tho, at which point is it really parasocial?