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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