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by Arisaka1 325 days ago
I absolutely do that because I got so bullied that my personality shifted from self-expression to emulation. I realized that just this week because I caught myself copying a coworker he's respected and has people laughing with his jokes, and wondered why I have the tendency to do it.

But I never expected that this would also link back to my tendency to skip an article and just stick to what the top comments of a section have, HN or Reddit.

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> wondered why I have the tendency to do it

Because when you were still swinging from the trees a some generations back that was a survival trait.