Poll: Who knows who you truly are?

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Matthew Jabour

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Do you conceal your true nature to strangers, only showing your actual personality to your closest friends? Do you pretend to be someone you aren't around your friends and only act naturally in the presence of strangers? Or do you mask your true self at all times, letting nobody see who you truly are? Do you even know which face is yours?
 

Spade Lead

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I would never keep a job if anyone outside my small circle of friends knew who I truly am. The undiluted version of me is definitely NSFW.
 

tippy2k2

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I guess it depends on "who I truly am".

I have my own secrets/things I don't talk about with everyone (I don't think my mum would be terribly interested in what I choose to fap to).

However, if it's something I'm willing to talk with my friends/family, I don't hide it from strangers. I have all my gaming stuff all over my desk at work. I'll talk movies with my co-workers. I'll mock my boss for his choice in purchasing the Xbox One.

I'm pretty much an open book.
 

Aerosteam

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If I have to hide my true self in front of friends, why am I even friends with them?

I'm the same to strangers as I am to the people I know. You get what you see.
 

Fiz_The_Toaster

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My friends do.

My work doesn't know and doesn't need to know if I want to keep working there. I'm pretty open there about my "true nature" and why I don't let it "all hang out" and they're fine with it. They know I don't voice my opinions on things and I stay out of a lot of work politics, and they do respect for that. I mean, I do have to get along with those people and get paid.

Other than that, what you see is what you get and I'm sorry you have to see it. :p
 

Elfgore

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I'm at my normal self among friends, alone, and sometimes at work[footnote]I can't go full me at work, I'd be canned for the amount of cussing.[/footnote] I'm sarcastic, obnoxious, loud, fowl-mouthed, and a total nerd on top of that.
 

Frission

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Queen Michael said:
The Shadow knows!

...What, none of you get it? Come on, it's a classic...!
[Redacted]

Yeah I wasn't the only one who thought of that.

Please, please be that I got the correct reference.

EDIT: Damn, wrong reference. Well I guess this is a good example of unveiling something you never wanted anyone else to know.
 

TheRiddler

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Eh, nobody [b/]really[/b] knows who I am, since nobody but me knows all my thoughts, opinions and emotions on absolutely everything.

That said, most people that talk to me regularly are close enough.
 

DefunctTheory

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Everyone I know. I'm pretty vocal about my opinions and my nasty, dirty past.

On an unrelated note, I don't have many friends.
 

Scarim Coral

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Define "true nature"?

Granted I don't put an act toward my co workers, I simply don't bring it up unless they do first (e.g. one of them like horror alot and I mention about the game Five Night's At Freddy and he was interested at the synopis and gameplay). Sure I'm more open up toward my friends and family but I don't reveal EVERYTHING to them and I can assume the same from them!
 
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No one really knows who I am. Not even me. I am that wonderful mixture of an enigma, a mystery and large dose of banality that causes everyone to not really care about the former two.
 

StriderShinryu

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Overall, I'm a pretty open person if not exactly a social butterfly. I don't have any issue expressing myself to either friends or those I don't know that well. I'm pretty much the same person regardless. That said, I'm also a very internal person when it comes to my own personal baggage. I don't like anyone else feeling like they have to hear about or deal with "my stuff." I suppose you could say that while pretty much everyone gets the "authentic" me, no one, even those closest to me, gets everything.
 

Evonisia

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Screw you, you don't know me!

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Assuming I know everything there is to know about my personality, then nobody but me. Amongst different types of friends I am quite different, and that's just leaving aside things like family, strangers, people who I regularly encounter but don't care about etc. I just exaggerate any given aspect when really I'm just a little bit one attribute, a little bit another.

I imagine if my Tumblr-dweller friends encountered me when I'm around my dudebro friends more often they'd be massively pissed, and in reverse the dudebro friends would be alienated.
 

A_Parked_Car

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I'm generally quite open, but only my friends really know me of course. I don't have very many either, so I would say under ten people truly know me.
 

giles

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That's a silly question. I don't even know who that "true me" is. I think sometimes everyone discovers new thing about themselves.

Furthermore, the "true me" is not some fixed image but constantly evolving. Even if I played a character in front of someone (I don't, but for the sake of argument let's say I did), that would also be part of me. As long as I'm playing that character I'm positively affirming these actions into my subconscious, therefor changing who I am in that direction even. It's a kind of "positive hypocrisy" if you will. So my "self" is constantly changing.
Rather than anyone knowing my "self", people will just see more facets of me with more exposure. If this cuts off at some point, the facets they know might have changed or be less relevant, thus knowing less of my "self".

On a more superficial level: I don't play a persona for my family or friends. I also don't tell all my acquaintances all that much about my life unless it becomes relevant somehow, I just let their assumptions fill the gaps if it's important for them for some reason. That's kinda what you're asking, right?
 

Greg White

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My family sees what face of me they wish. Someone to be admired, to be counted on, to expect great things of.

My co-workers see me as slightly eccentric and standoffish.

My friends wonder how I'm not in an asylum somewhere and I wonder much the same about them.

Strangers see me as a bit intimidating.

Who's to say which is the real one?
 

lacktheknack

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Previously, I'd have said everyone. My real nature is pretty dang mild, and I thought I had nothing to hide, so I just never put on masks.

...but recently, I realized that wasn't true. ;_____;

So I'm working on that. >__> General interaction with me hasn't changed much so far, but who knows what tomorrow brings.