kinda reminds me of how you become weird around your family, cause your family got to know you as one thing and never really updated and now you're always kinda stuck in that persona they view you as and you keep watching yourself feed into it?
Great take. Especially if you see them infrequently, you're caught between aquiescing to old limited version so y'all just enjoy the time together (which works to an extent) and breaking some realities
I've been out of high school for the better part of a decade but haven't figured out how not to start feeling like a miserable wretched high schooler within hours of spending time around my family