... then don't do that.
"An Anti Pattern is a pattern that tells how to go from a problem to a bad solution"
I really adore this article: Boxes and Arrows: Taking the "you" out of user: My experience using personas
"Like a recovering substance abuser, it's a constant challenge for me to refrain-- can always imagine that I'm the user. "
Exactly. for a year I had "You are not the user" taped to my monitor and I still backslide.