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TIL about "masking," and you might like to too.

From Wikipedia:

Masking is a process in which an individual changes or "masks" their natural personality to conform to social pressures, abuse, and/or harassment. Some examples of masking are a single overly dominant temperament, or humor, two incongruent temperaments, or displaying three of the four main temperaments within the same individual. Masking can be strongly influenced by environmental factors such as authoritarian parents, rejection, and emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. An individual may not even know they are masking because it is a behavior that can take many forms.

Each person masks their emotions differently. During one

About a decade ago, I was talking with happy fam and mentioned that I felt uncomfortable even using my spawn point's name. My dad made a joke about "She who shall not be named." My younger half sister piped up with "We could just call her Voldemort!" So we did. Literally 8 of us. For about a decade.

Until yesterday. BF put in HP & the Sorc Stone. As soon as Hagrid started talking about Voldemort, I realized it was time. There are 2 reasons. The first is that Hermione is absolutely right when she says "Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." The second is that my spawn point should have absolutely nothing to do with my Harry Potter. Ever. Never. Ever. Forever. Ever.

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Someone posted to r/anxiety about the Imaginary Audience, and reading the Wiki about it, I realized that I'm still stuck in this mindset because my audience was never imaginary.

The basic premise of the topic is that people who are experiencing it feel as though their behavior or actions are the main focus of other people's attention.

It is defined as how willing a child is to reveal alternative forms of themselves.

It refers to the belief that a person is under constant, close observation by peers, family, and strangers.

This imaginary audience is proposed to account for a variety of adolescent behaviors and expe

That's it. That's the big takeaway. It's really that simple. 💜