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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

For what it's worth, friend group ~~B~~ A seems much more interesting. I would like to get to know them.

Edit: I meant the lizards. I want to get to know them. They seem chill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't you mean group A? Group B seems kinda lame.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Er, I suppose I do. The lizards. I like the lizards.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He got rejected from the human group for wearing socks with sandals, not for saying something weird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

The other two dudes look like the kind of dads that would wear socks with sandals, same as lizard boy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shameful to reduce the personality of those lizards to their primary defense mechanism.

That's like saying mastication or farting is a personality.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Wait, it isn't? Oh shit...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have ruined many dinners by talking about digging organs out of dead animals and people, for science

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Honestly that sounds like the kind of conversation I'd be into.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

You have different personalities for each friend group? Wut.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A little bit. Different groups might engage more with different aspects of my personality, so I find myself naturally emphasizing different parts of myself accordingly. Code switching isn't that unusual, I don't think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I certainly don’t let aspects at work come to play in the bedroom. Or vice versa.

Same again when having parents over.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

You guys have friend groups?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While I can't speak from experience, I would imagine this isn't terribly uncommon for black people in America at least (and other people of color).

There's still a lot of systemic racism over here, so unfortunately sometimes you have to mask who you are just to approach being treated the same as white people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've heard plenty of reports from African Americans that in their Black friend group/school group that they can be critized for not sounding Black enough. One famous example is Neil deGrasse Tyson, who felt like might be disappointing people by pursuing academia over wrestling.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Everyone do . Not talking about friends group respectively but in a way people have different personalities with different people like do you act/say/do things the same way you do with your parents and teachers , colleagues and your boss , your girlfriend/boyfriend and your distant friends , your best friends and your distant cousins ? No we all have different personalities when we are with different people .

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

you even use the same name across friend groups!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Different interfaces or speaking styles, maybe. Sometimes literally different languages

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

To an extent, think work friends versus the kinda friends you meet at a concert, or at the gym. It's not necessarily a "different" personality as much as shifting behavior and topics a bit. In short, I'm gonna talk a little different around my young engineering friends vs the guys I've known since high school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

people would think I'm mentally ill if I acted around them like I act around my closest friends so yeah I kinda do. I do heavily suspect I have mild autism though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm beginning to suspect that I might have some autistic tendencies too... why are we all on Lemmy?