There was a micro-discussion at my Tier 2 CFAR workshop where a bunch of us were chatting about our shared experience of being called unemotional as kids, and how we all learned to fake emotional displays as we got older.
in retrospect, i think i faked at least 50% of my emotional displays in college mostly picked up from friends what i was "supposed" to feel in various situations and did a pretty good job simulating them, but mostly wasn't actually feeling them, as far as i can tell
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fascinating. i don't think anyone ever called me unemotional, but i did really, really want people to like me
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But it wasn't completely fake. What deeper truth was driving your acting?
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i wanted people to like me
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Same. In large part cause I'm a third culture kid. The main feeling I'd get it is a swell of anxiety that I misread as whatever emotion I was supposed to be feeling at the instant.
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ooh yeah that resonates
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The real question: has it gone up or down?
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Just college?
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