Why would someone pretend to be you?

Question

I just have been reading the answers from Artistic_prof. His story is mine (well most of it) I sent my life story to my sister to put in our family book and this person is using that story to talk about themself. Though he added a quite a few things, it is my life he is talking about. Why would someone do that? What makes people want to be what they are not? How do you stop this? I feel violated, and not in a good way! This is like when that couples mobil home was stolen and they took a vacation to get over and and the place they rented was their home, only this is more serious.

Does reporting someone for this help to stop it? I did not even post these they were in an email. This is what is sad.

Zclifton2 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you all there? I did not understand what that had to do with my question.

Answer 1

It is sad but mostly the person has low self esteem and low self worth. They can only lie and live vicariously through others. They put up a front and a false image to make themselves look good and or interesting. That is the problem with the entire Internet. Never put anything out there that you do not want taken. Even a family album/group room or whatever should always be private with only members who have permission and a password allowed in. On the Internet many many people are phonies and pretending to be something they are not to gain whatever it is in their tiny minds that they need to make themselves feel better. It's really sick, I know but it's the truth. You have no control of anything on the net that you put out there for the world to see and or steal.

It's curious though how they would retrieve this info off an email. Emails are at least private if they are sent one to one. Did you share this info with anyone else? Someone must have posted it or passed this info on somehow. I can't imagine how your email could have been intercepted. And reporting them? Probably won't do you any good sadly. Unless a person threatens you or breaks some law, there is not much you can do.l I would try if I were you, to investigate how the heck the person got the info.

Answer 2

Yeah, violated. But then, "there is that certain slate of light on winter afternoons, that has the heft of cathedral tunes", sometimes you see, hear and experience things that attract your attention so you remember, but it does not reveal at that moment the more meaningful stuff that is there in the human imagination, your imagination.
Years later sometime, it comes to you, what was in that experience that attracted you? Was it knowledge, understanding, a moment like, a smell, an enlightenment and a connection like from one universe to another. Was it, was it awesome and orginally embarrassing.
That moment was full of meaning and you remember it like it happened yesterday. You walk up to it, and you freeze.
You kind of pack that away under some rocks or something in your mind and then you come across it again twenty years later and have the same reaction, but this time it leaves you with an image of yourself, not an image of your friendly friend or of a helpless man. Or was it a brush with death seen from a not so friendly angle.
The only thing you can do, is never give up on yourself, the moment will return, but you did not know that before. Just put it in the remember file. Remember to ask next time. That is the promise of life.
You will learn.

Answer 3

Maybe his life was really really bad... and he thought you were an amazing person? Im sorry. It is pretty wierd.

Answer 4

Couldn't tell but i have that problem also everyone wants to be me!!!!!