Dr. Micaela

I'm not sure.

But...

So how do you find that alternative way of rebelling against what I'm supposed to act like?

Right.

And then was I going to say something else?

Oh yeah.

One other thing is if you do have places or people in your life where you are kind of forced to conform or forced to be fake or mask or whatever, it is of utmost importance that you then have spaces where you can be

fully liberated.

I don't mean this in a literal sense, although maybe this is your vibe, but where you can just be utterly naked.

So that, again, not literally, unless that's your vibe, but like where you can just be the youest you, where you can, you know, babble about whatever you want to, you can interrupt whoever you want to.

Maybe that's a group chat where it's four people and y'all are messaging each other back and forth and you're managing to maintain seven different conversations all at once without doing the like, oh, I'm going to specifically and politely reply to this comment that you said.

No, it's the wild west.

Everyone is just saying everything on their mind, but we all still somehow understand each other.

Or that's where you go into your subreddit about

dinosaurs that still exist today and that Jurassic Park is actually a real thing.

And these are documentaries, not fiction.

I don't know.

Right.

You do you.

But the more that you can, if you have to fake it sometimes, because that's how life sometimes is, make sure you absolutely have dedicated time to balance that out where you can be your you is to you.