Adolescent egocentrism is defined as an type of egocentrism in which adolescents have difficulty distinguishing their thinking about their own thoughts from their thinking about what thoughts other people may have. The imaginary audience factors into this by people believing that others are aware of their appearance and behavior. While the personal fable factors into it by people believing that they are more unique than others which allows them to feel invulnerability to the consequences of taking risks. Lastly, the optimistic bias which is similar to the personal fable is people thinking that others are more likely to have accidents,misfortunes, or diseases than they are. This can be seen as a type of uniqueness that is described in the
