[rsl7]

Wow. Ok. The answer is that there is no you. It's not a society problem. My read on a comment like yours is that you are young and have not experienced a life partitioned into parts that you don't want to overlap. That, if anything, is the reality of the human experience. Forcing together what should be separate is what is wrong and unnatural. Sorry.

[Swizec]

Oh I've done plenty of partitioning life into parts that I didn't want to overlap. But then I grew up and became me.

What I've found is that people are far more accepting of me, like me much better, and I generally build better and deeper relationships quicker. My life has also become much simpler since I no longer have to filter myself all the freaking time.

It's really nice. You should try it. But it does take oodles of confidence. If you aren't confident in yourself, then you will not be able to pull it off.

[rsl7]

You grew up and became you? ok.

Next you're going to tell me how you're living a minimalist lifestyle and have shed most material goods that drag everyone else down, and you don't understand why other people don't. I don't believe you because I know too many actual, complex people. We live private, inner lives. We think we know how certain people see us. We think we know how our actions are perceived. We think we know who we are. But we are wrong.

Your response sounds like the beginning of a novel, followed by "and then one day everything changed"

I don't know. Good luck with being the real you.

[katbyte]

I would think it also depends on who "you" are, where you live and the people around you. If your gay and live in the middle east or certain parts of Africa your going to have a bad time simply being yourself.

[Swizec]

Fair.

But as a self-absorbed millennial I often forget to remember that there are people who live in different circumstances than I do. Now I'm wondering how many gay people from certain parts of Africa use Facebook ...