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self-fulfilling

 adjective
     
self-fulfilling
if a statement or belief about what will happen in the future is self-fulfilling, it becomes true because you expect it to be true and so behave in a way that will make it happen:
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: expect things to go wrong, and they probably will.
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