Originally Posted by
helltoraise 
Wow projecting an eating disorder......
My ex would say to me I'm done playing your games! I was trying to be in a relationship.
Exhausting.
Only if you try to stay in the play.
Did not even really mind the really goofy ones, they are just all kind of self-discounting. That a crazy person thinks you must be a Martian, hardly makes you from Mars.
As near as I can tell, this is all a close cousin of the Drama Triangle. (you all know what that is?) Part of the casting and directing by the would-be Drama Victim has to Project on the would-be actors as part of the show.
If you leave the stage, and go out and just sit in the audience, all that is left is for the director (as it were) to swing the projectors wildly out to you in the audience, and announce THERE! There is the Villain! (or person with an Eating Disorder!) or whatever nuttiness in going on their mind-play.
I just make sure the kids are out in the audience and not being dragged on the stage, make popcorn, and watch the show. It it gets too bad, we can always leave the theater.