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Why returning home can feel like time travel

I moved back to my hometown after college and everyone still sees me as who I was in high school, not who I became.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic return to formative environments can trigger regressive social dynamics that negate subsequent identity development.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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