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Michelle Akin's avatar

this is a lovely way to say it: "I thank you for either your continued attention or for honouring your desire to focus it elsewhere." so thanks for that line ◡̈

and thanks for sharing these distinctions between sincerity, authenticity, and profilicity. so interesting.

i think that in the last 2-3 years i have released my death grip on my profilic identity, and have been exploring the others/seeing how to integrate. i found myself excited while reading this, because they feel quite integrated right now!! but i will continue to explore this.

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Paul Millerd's avatar

To be honest, I don’t think about it a lot which is an advantage to creating online I think. I noticed it most when others project identities on to me that don’t feel resonant. Like when family notices that I am not doing something they expect like owning a house. If there’s anything, I have a habit centric identity. Like dude who does these things consistently. I’m always assuming I’ll keep changing too so authentic “true” me seems a bit too ambiguous for me.

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