to inhabit a role - to fully take on a role and behave according to its expectations, to code-switch - to change how you speak or behave depending on the situation or audience, to mythologize one’s past - to turn past experiences into an idealized or simplified story, self-justification - explaining your actions in a way that makes them feel acceptable to you, self-concept fracture - a breakdown in your understanding of who you are, self-coherence - a sense that your identity, actions, and beliefs fit together consistently, identity foreclosure - accepting an identity without exploring other possibilities, to be at odds with oneself - feeling internally conflicted or divided, to paper over contradictions - to hide or smooth over inconsistencies instead of addressing them, to curate one’s identity - to carefully select which aspects of yourself you present to others, to anchor one’s sense of self - to base your sense of identity on something stable, to fracture one’s self-image - to damage or disrupt how you see yourself, to perform an identity - to act in ways that fit a particular identity, especially for others,

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