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definition of drama

an original definition by J. E. Brown

drama

n.

1. Street Definition: A pejorative. A dismissive blanket term for other people’s emotions and troubles. Symptomatic of a belief that other people do not have real emotions, and that all displays of emotion are performances, designed to get attention and to manipulate others.
   

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Synonyms:

• empathy deficiency; overreacting; imagining things; faking; turning on the water works.

Related Examples: Insensitivity and accusations of fakery seem to be the essence of the mindset:

I remember one time I told someone in a chat room that I have a disability, and he thought I was lying. He accused me of just saying that so the ladies in the chat room would feel sorry for me.

— James Meadours, at http://thechp.syr.edu/people_are_people.html

You don’t have asthma — you’re just not trying to breathe.

— old wives’ tale