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Jason Reitman

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Jason Reitman

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Jason Reitman is describing a deep sense of personal discomfort and isolation, where someone struggles to feel at ease with themselves and disconnected from their past and relationships. He highlights how these feelings create a complicated and uneasy connection to family, childhood, and the world around them.

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