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What if You Disrupt It With Technology?
An identity is a role, a set of complex roles that you negotiate with other people. It can't be something that you impose on other people because then they won't cooperate with you. You can't tell my granddaughter, who's three, that she isn't Pocahontas. And all you're doing is interfering with her fantasy play. So I see a fair bit of this as delayed fantasy play with the kind of pathology that comes up when you delay a necessary developmental stage.