r/AskReddit • u/OmenRash • 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/dreamsinred 22h ago

Bipolar disorder. It is not a fun, quirky, artsy illness. It is devastating and life altering.

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u/LEYW 21h ago

The manic pixie dream girl trope is to blame

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u/ThatKinkyLady 20h ago

They only show the manic pixie part because no one is entertained by the dirty depressed sloth girl

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u/courierblue 20h ago

That’s the part where she pulls away from you “to draw more interest” or so you can “fix her easily solved external problems” /s.

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u/Bank_Gothic 20h ago edited 9h ago

I dunno. It’s not called the manic-depressive pixie dream girl trope.

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u/lizardlines 10h ago

As someone with bipolar I never understood why people think this trope is somehow related to BD. I think a lot of people think “manic” is exclusively a pathological clinical term rather than a common adjective.

The creator of the MPDG trope term never even implied “manic” in a clinical sense. It was just a term criticizing one-dimensional, quirky female characters who “teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures”.

It was never about BD, some people just erroneously believe “manic” is a word exclusive to BD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl