I suspect the normie answer to this is they don't. Adaptations are subconscious enough that they do not diverge from normal personality/character progression. It's only masking if it creates a non-converging divide between outer manifestation vs instinctual/flow response (cont.)
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RT @fvathynevgl
Oh, one more thing: how does masking/compensatory strategies differ from self-development / self-improvement?
https://twitter.com/fvathynevgl/status/1304730706363535364
Not only have you taken on piles of cognitive debt (even if running as daemons), emotional life is starved and depression is kinda inevitable. Congrats, You are now emulating an NPC while You are dying. You are also emotionally a teenager. Welcome to the land of high functioning!
obv this is old news im just tryna get into the tweeting habit
at the extra cost of having to build/maintain the cognitive model & its agents explicitly, stripping them of real agency in the process. Being good enough at this to satisfy expectations is in this sense a curse. Worse, it is a trainable skill, although model building can be fun.