You know how some people are *really* into being geeks and proudly declare they're geeks and are super into things specifically because they're geeky and it's just incredibly cringe, especially if you're also a geek? I feel like a lot of identity labels work like this.
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that seems really likely especially since part of overperforming is often gatekeeping, which I think is motivated by the desires/fears you discuss. not letting the thing you connected to slip away, attempting to prove you belong by becoming the arbitrator of membership
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Yeah, definitely. Hmm. Weirdly this is kinda an inverted form of the thing where closeted gay people in homophobic environments (e.g. very conservative Christianity) prone to being extra homophobic in order to make sure they're not seen as gay.
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