Personal+Fable

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An exaggerated sense of personal uniqueness and indestructibility, which may be the basis for adolescent risk taking. Gen Psych, CH 8, pp.242 Part of adolescence, and formal operational stage
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[] When you are watching a movie and the main character is threatened, you might tell yourself that the main character can't die because it's his story. That's basically what teens tell themselves--they can't die because they are the main characters in their own fables.

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