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Alice's life is going swell until she gains the ability to read minds. She becomes very distraught when she discovers that the vast majority of the people around her have rather disturbing thoughts, thoughts better left unread. Random people think disgusting things all day long. Her friends are only using her. Her lover has been cheating since day one. Most likely, all of the above and more. Dirty Mind Reading is a Sub-Trope. See Also: Unhappy Medium, and some types of Insanity Immunity. May intersect with These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know if the read thought is really terrible.

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  • Alice's life is going swell until she gains the ability to read minds. She becomes very distraught when she discovers that the vast majority of the people around her have rather disturbing thoughts, thoughts better left unread. Random people think disgusting things all day long. Her friends are only using her. Her lover has been cheating since day one. Most likely, all of the above and more. Dirty Mind Reading is a Sub-Trope. See Also: Unhappy Medium, and some types of Insanity Immunity. May intersect with These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know if the read thought is really terrible.
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  • Alice's life is going swell until she gains the ability to read minds. She becomes very distraught when she discovers that the vast majority of the people around her have rather disturbing thoughts, thoughts better left unread. Random people think disgusting things all day long. Her friends are only using her. Her lover has been cheating since day one. Most likely, all of the above and more. Much like the time she went on TV Tropes, Alice's gift has ruined her life. She might opt on never using her powers in hopes of not alienating herself any further. If she's really unlucky, she won't be able to turn her power off. In this case, Alice will probably end up becoming a jaded misanthrope, a doleful hermit, or maybe just become really depressed. It's certainly understandable that Alice may wish to remove or disable her powers somehow. This trope is a prime example of Humans Are Flawed. In more extreme examples, this trope might be evidence of a Crapsack World, and you can expect people to act like assholes as well as think like them. A villain may start out with this trope, and then go on to contemplate The Evils of Free Will. Dirty Mind Reading is a Sub-Trope. See Also: Unhappy Medium, and some types of Insanity Immunity. May intersect with These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know if the read thought is really terrible. Can be related to Power Incontinence. Examples of A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read include:
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