being yourself

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I have no idea what it means to be myself either. I guess my only "natural" self is the way I am when I am completely alone and not interacting with anybody, but that cannot be transferred to the public, because responding to external stimuli requires conscious thought about what is appropriate.

Your real self is an original form of your being that is unique, complex, and happy

When I was young, I would hear people give others the advice, "Just be yourself". I had no idea what they were talking about. How could you be anything but yourself? Particularly, when you are by yourself much of the time (which I was).

Because you hear others give this advice often, I can only guess that many people “act out” in order to form an impression on others.

When I was a child and was told to be myself, I just stopped censoring myself which was not a good idea.