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When professional survival requires constant identity performance

I code-switch so automatically at work that I don't know who I really am anymore outside of performing respectability.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The labor of code-switching can create a disconnection from authentic self as performance becomes indistinguishable from identity.

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