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Can we agree hating Adeline is just a romanticized case of stolkholm syndrome
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Anonymous 1d

HA is not a captive/ captor situation so it doesn’t really fit tbh. Is it romanticized abuse? Yeah, but people have kinks and I don’t really care what others are reading. I think it’s weird as hell that they chose HA of all things to make a movie out of, but anything that gets people reading, which it did and does, is ultimately a net gain in the end as people move onto better fiction.

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Anonymous 1d

Stockholm syndrome doesn’t exist ✨ it’s a made up term.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

What..?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

what a weird thing to say.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

No they’re right. Stockholm syndrome as its own thing is disputed, and we don’t have a bunch of good evidence for its existence as an actual syndrome. I’m no scholar tbc, I just read around, but think about it. It’s just ‘oh they started to empathize with their captor’ but people as a general rule start to empathize with people who take care of them. We’re kinda built for community and survival

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

it isn’t about empathy. it is about brain chemistry when someone is being abused/held captive/etc, and the sole person is the perp. it’s not bs made up for fun?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

You could always do some research yourself instead of having an emotional attachment to a term. They aren’t making things up. And even the people from the situation where the term was coined have differing claims.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

Considering she is actually a captive in the second book iirc and that does not at all end in romance w the captor.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15h

Thanks for the assist 🫡

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

Do a little research. It’s not a recognized term.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Of course💞

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