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How constant code-switching erases your authentic self

I code-switch so automatically now that I do not know which version of my voice is actually mine.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survival through adaptation can become so seamless that the original self disappears beneath layers of strategic performance.

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