How much do you change when you know no one is around?

[Jay™]

We all put on masks for different social situations. Sometimes those masks resemble who we are underneath, and sometimes they don’t.

Do you change?

 

[PGen98]

Absolutely I do. I've been playing a role for 34 years and only recently started shedding it for some people. And even then, I'm still a different person by myself. I have social and general anxiety disorders, I can't be around people it makes me fall apart. I've learned to mask it, but only for short periods, and then I get back to my car, my house, my room, whatever the case may be, and I fall to pieces. When I'm alone, I'm me, the real me, and it's nice!

 

[Jazzy]

Who am I when no one is around? I am me. Who else would I be?

I don’t have a work face.

I don’t have a romance face.

I don’t have a “I am around people” face.

I would argue that we are ourselves ALL THE TIME. If we are different when we are around people, it’s because we choose to be, and that IS who we are, at that moment.

Isn’t it?

 

[Demon_skeith]

I tend to speak and curse more freely.

 

[Grungie]

I’m just quieter when nobody is around, because… nobody is around.

 

[Jay™]

I don't change at all; I am who I am all the time.

 

[Shavkat]

I am not a person who needs to deceive others. For me, "what you see is what you get." In our modern world, there are so many people who are good actors, whether they harm others or not. In my view, we need to be vigilant to cast away these people from our lives.