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Society tells us that talking to yourself period, let alone in public, is not acceptable. It is associated with psychosis, dementia, and many other mental illnesses. My experiment shows that deviance is a combination of the action of the deviant person as well as the reaction of the audience. People appear to talk to themselves all the time as earpieces to cell phones get smaller and smaller with the technological breakthroughs that we see. My behavior was acceptable until people saw that there was no earpiece. From that point on, I was considered deviant and socially unfit. I accept my initial hypothesis, with the inclusion of the fact that people thought I was
