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𓊆 𝗤𝗢𝗧𝗗; 𝟘𝟜.𝟙𝟙 𓊇 Thinking of my last question ... Are you someone who keeps appearances? A good number of retrospring users have personas, me included, but are you the type to bury your true opinions for the sake of your persona? Do you lose yourself in it?
𓊆 𝗦𝗢𝗧𝗗; 𝟘𝟜.𝟙𝟙 𓊇 Savage Good Boy, by Japanese Breakfast.
My simple answer is: No. I say I have a persona, but that's not 100% accurate. I'm just a more anonymous version of myself for protection ... Which everyone does automatically online, even if they overshare. I don't bury my opinions, in fact, it's the opposite. There are just some people I find no use in arguing with, so I go along with whatever to appease them. That's guilt by omission still, so I should start weighing more about whether I care more about my opinions or keeping a meaningless peace.
I keep up appearances in a way, in that I don't reveal my more controversial or taboo opinions so that everyone won't jump on me, unfollow me, block me and hate me. I also tend to easily get angry at people's stupidity online and want to rail them, but I don't because then they'll dislike me and I don't like being disliked, and also I might get banned. I don't remember this happening on Retrospring very often, it more applies to other platforms. So, yeah, I bury my opinions, but not so much for the sake of a persona. I don't have a persona and don't fit in other opinions in their place, I just decline to comment. I would never want to lose myself in artificial constructs.
I try not to be. Sometimes I feel like hiding my opinions and not challenging others' assumptions of me is a matter of safety, but doing so is bad for me mentally, and when I let the mask slip it's never as bad as I think it will be. My online person is as close to the real me as I am willing to show anyone, and that might be closer than most people's offline personas are to their real selves.
While I do have a ‘persona’ of sorts,I am not afraid of voicing my opinions ♪ ㅤ I do not see why I should hide how I feel or think when my persona is supposed to be an extension of myself,in a way .
not at all since i think it makes the person fake. i'm pretty blunt when it comes to things or when people upset me however even when i'm too scared or uncomfortable i'd have a friend do it for me.
in the past i did lose myself in that false persona, it was honestly a mess and i can comfortably say i no longer give a fuck what anyone says and life for the most part has been better
Very, mostly due to the fact that i myself have an generally erratic personality + really bad mood swings
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