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Definitely. In fact, I'll say it is the same in almost _every_ interpersonal relationship. I engage with my parents, grandparents, siblings, etc in specific ways that we have agreed we have overlap. Depending on the person, I soften my utopian ideals, my fascination with drugs, my progressive-ness, my math memes, even my accent when I talk. I don't think this is unhealthy, I think this is just what it means to be alive. I express my "authentic self" through my life as a whole, and it is probably witnessed by no individual person; only I can see / enjoy it.


Manners are the grease of society, as they say.


I behave this way too. But I also fear it leads to a degree of split personality disorder... and feeling a bit like a fraud.


What a time it was to be alive before the Culture War (tm) in San Francisco.

I worked at a household name tech company and you could draw a pie chart of Libertarian, (Self described) Communist, Progressive, Anarchists, and everything in between. Drugs weren't really controversial but you had an entire spectrum of personalities and drugs that were popular in different groups. Everyone kind of accepted each other to be honest.


There was pretty much no point in time in American history where people just accepted each other.

This kind of stuff is very easy to say when you might be a person who is easy to accept. In general, Life is pretty smooth sailing if you don't trot too much off the beaten path - and that, unfortunately, includes immutable characteristics.

Generally, if you ask other people about the same time frame, you will get different answers.




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