Just curious - if people feel totally different around different people?
I don't just mean different. I mean - I feel like I have created a new persona whenever I interact with people.
When I have gotten to know somebody it is like I have discovered a whole new side to myself that I didn't even know existed. Almost like an impressionist learning a new impression.
I have an excellent memory - so it may be that I just find myself slipping back into the patterns and conversations/behaviours of past interactions? Such that my entire personality around someone is like a collection of long-running jokes which only applies to that one person.
Or it could be that as introvert - I feel the need to put a 'mask' on whenever I deal with people? I am not shy and am very outgoing. Yet at the same time - my preference is to be alone reading books. And as such - I have to make an effort when intereacting with others. And as a result of that, I feel myself being totally different around different people.
It is really odd. It is almost as if I can feel my voice, body and face change by simply closing my eyes and imagining I am in the same room as somebody I have known in the past.
Anyway - I was just wondering if anyone else can relate to this? It is a very vivid thing to me - yet I feel like my closest friends don't understand when I try and explain this.
It is a problem in some ways. Around some people I feel really creative, funny and inspired. And ready to take on the world. And round others I feel totally boring and uninteresting.
And I can go from one to the other within seconds - just by leaving one room to hang out with somebody else in the room next door.
It is pretty odd. Do most people feel 'the same person' around different people? Or is what I describe common? I am not sure if it is since I don't seem to notice it in others. But then again they may not notice it in me...
In someways - I am only ever truly 'myself' on an internet forum. Since it is the closest I get to showing the side of myself which is there when I am totally alone, and not influenced by the people I am around. This is less of a problem for me around my brothers, mum and best friend. Around them I feel alot closer to my 'true' self.
Anyway - I am not one to self-analyse like this usually. But I just wanted to ask about it since I have never seen it discussed.
I don't just mean different. I mean - I feel like I have created a new persona whenever I interact with people.
When I have gotten to know somebody it is like I have discovered a whole new side to myself that I didn't even know existed. Almost like an impressionist learning a new impression.
I have an excellent memory - so it may be that I just find myself slipping back into the patterns and conversations/behaviours of past interactions? Such that my entire personality around someone is like a collection of long-running jokes which only applies to that one person.
Or it could be that as introvert - I feel the need to put a 'mask' on whenever I deal with people? I am not shy and am very outgoing. Yet at the same time - my preference is to be alone reading books. And as such - I have to make an effort when intereacting with others. And as a result of that, I feel myself being totally different around different people.
It is really odd. It is almost as if I can feel my voice, body and face change by simply closing my eyes and imagining I am in the same room as somebody I have known in the past.
Anyway - I was just wondering if anyone else can relate to this? It is a very vivid thing to me - yet I feel like my closest friends don't understand when I try and explain this.
It is a problem in some ways. Around some people I feel really creative, funny and inspired. And ready to take on the world. And round others I feel totally boring and uninteresting.
And I can go from one to the other within seconds - just by leaving one room to hang out with somebody else in the room next door.
It is pretty odd. Do most people feel 'the same person' around different people? Or is what I describe common? I am not sure if it is since I don't seem to notice it in others. But then again they may not notice it in me...
In someways - I am only ever truly 'myself' on an internet forum. Since it is the closest I get to showing the side of myself which is there when I am totally alone, and not influenced by the people I am around. This is less of a problem for me around my brothers, mum and best friend. Around them I feel alot closer to my 'true' self.
Anyway - I am not one to self-analyse like this usually. But I just wanted to ask about it since I have never seen it discussed.