I was extremely introverted as a pre-teen, mostly due to some rather bad teacher/peer experiences. It took me years to learn to not only accept my oddities, but to enjoy myself for them. I've found that the kind of person who likes me, seeing me in all my weird glory, is often the sort of person I will like in return. Hiding behind a cool exterior tends to bring me friends I never should have wanted in the first place.
So, to answer your question, yes, I'm myself in public. I'm even myself in LJ, at least according to other people who'd notice.
This doesn't take into account "personality flexing", which I consider to be a mostly subconscious reaction (such as picking up someone else's accent), and not the same as hiding who you really are.
To put it a different way - if someone grins when I do something impulsively silly, I've accomplished two things at once - I've made someone feel good, and I've figured out who has my sense of humor. Score!
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So, to answer your question, yes, I'm myself in public. I'm even myself in LJ, at least according to other people who'd notice.
This doesn't take into account "personality flexing", which I consider to be a mostly subconscious reaction (such as picking up someone else's accent), and not the same as hiding who you really are.
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