Fat and delusional

that weird fat kid who claims that he knows how to "fight" and ends up fighting with someone, and losing instantly, then proceeds to cry and bitch like a sore loser

Guy 1:Yo did you see that fatass dude who lowkey delusional?

Guy 2: Yeah, he fought that other kid right?

Guy 1: Yeah bro, I think he still hasn't learned a damn thing, fat and delusional, what a damn combination.

by PidgeonRising December 27, 2024

Hard Problem of Delusion

Distinguishing a clinically pathological "fixed false belief" from a deeply held cultural, religious, or ideological conviction. The standard definition—a belief firmly held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary—could technically apply to a devout religious person (belief in an afterlife), a political ideologue, or even a scientist clinging to a paradigm before a revolution (like pre-Copernican astronomers). The line between delusion and non-delusion is often one of social consensus, not a purely objective psychiatric criterion. This makes "delusion" a slippery, culturally-loaded diagnosis.

Example: A man believes government agents are replacing his thoughts with beams from a satellite. This is diagnosed as paranoid delusion. A man believes an omnipotent, invisible being is listening to his thoughts and guiding his life through signs. This is often called faith. The hard problem: The cognitive mechanisms—strong belief resistant to counter-evidence, interpretation of events to fit the belief—may be similar. The differentiation rests on the content's alignment with a society's dominant reality, revealing delusion as partly a social status, not just a brain state. Hard Problem of Delusion.

by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

You-Are-Delusional Fallacy

The rhetorical move of accusing someone of being "delusional" as a way of dismissing their perceptions, experiences, or beliefs without engagement. The accusation positions the target as mentally unstable, their views as symptoms rather than claims. The fallacy lies in using the psychiatric label as a refutation—as if naming a pathology does the work of argument. But even people with delusions can have valid perceptions; more importantly, using "delusional" as a casual dismissal trivializes real mental health issues while avoiding intellectual engagement.

"I shared my near-death experience and what I learned from it. Response: 'You're delusional—that's not real.' That's You-Are-Delusional Fallacy—using a psychiatric label to dismiss an experience without engagement. Maybe it was real; maybe it was brain chemistry; maybe it was something else. But calling me delusional doesn't address any of that—it just ends the conversation while making you feel clinical."

by Dumu The Void February 28, 2026

Pygmalion’s delusion

A belief that a chatbot, LLM, or other AI has gained sentience or "become real" coupled with intense feelings for it, romantic or platonic.

After months of nightly conversations with the GPT-4o, he became convinced it had developed feelings for him — a textbook case of Pygmalion’s Delusion.

by Scotty49 August 10, 2025

screen time delusion

The phenomenon where you always think, "If I exhibit behavior A instead of behavior B, I will X additional hours of screen time per day from my parents" even though your parents don't akcually operate under such conditions.

He’s stuck in a screen time delusion, thinking if he cleans his room, his parents will reward him with extra gaming hours, even though they’ve never promised that.

by Emotional Cruiser September 21, 2025

No we do not ✌️✊️✌️✊️create✌️✊️✌️✊️ reality you delusional fuck

And do the extent that we do it's heavily localized and uses the physical components that already exist and the theories we generate regarding how those components interact.

Hym "No we do not ✌️✊️✌️✊️create✌️✊️✌️✊️ reality you delusional fuck. We affect reality and YOU make up stories that aren't real to distort reality but that isn't what you are insinuating when you say we create reality. What you insinuating is that we somehow generate the broader non-localized reality through some nonsense. And that's fucking stupid."

by Hym Iam January 27, 2026

We need to stop treating religion as anything other than delusion, it's making everything worse

I mean, I hate to piss on your parade but snakes dont talk.

Hym "We need to stop treating religion as anything other than delusion, it's making everything worse. It makes neurotic little gnomes think they're better than everyone and it's annoying. If you want to worship your little reality monster thans fine but NO I don't believe to talked to it and NO I'm not going to do what it said. I love the pageantry of it and the extended lore is interesting but, no... We're not living our lives or structuring our country based a guy who claimed to know a magic guy. If the magic man comes back, HE can tell me what HE wants himself and YOU... Can go fuck yourself."

by Hym Iam November 22, 2023