When I was around 10 years old, I had a nice brand new basketball (smaller than regulation size) that I would bring to school. At recess, several of us would play a game together using the ball. If I started losing, I would get upset and take my ball with me in a fit of misplaced emotional frustration so that nobody could play at all. What actually happened was that I projected my negative feelings onto everyone else and made their experience worse. Not sure why I thought of that just now… 
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