Emily tells her friend Sarah,"Absolutely nobody in my family understands me.They are totally clueless!" Emily's feelings are an example of what David Elkind calls the

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The personal fable is a part of adolescent egocentrism described by David Elkind. It involves an adolescent's belief that their experiences and feelings are unique, and nobody else can understand them. Emily's feelings of being misunderstood by her family are an example of the personal fable. Paranoid thinking involves irrational suspicions and mistrust of others and is not relevant to this scenario. The imaginary audience involves an adolescent's belief that they are constantly the center of attention and scrutiny, while delusions involve a fixed false belief not based in reality.

Emily Tells Her Friend Sarah,"Absolutely Nobody in My Family Understands