nope, I lied. maybe I should just turn off the damn computer. (but typing is so much easier than try

[arethinn]

Don't want to compartmentalize myself, but not everyone needs to always see everything. Difference between purposely concealing and simply choosing not to reveal where not seen to be relevant. After all, I am not "out" at work, in several ways; it is not needed. I've wanted to consider online as a place where I wouldn't want to do this, but then that just creates the same type of compartmentalization, only between "work/home" and "not-work/home", in other words "in here" and "out there", which is perhaps worse in that it is more absolute, rather than considering that both online and off, there are places for some things and other places for others.

Summary: It is not somehow dishonest, nor doing myself a disservice, to act differently in different situations and ask to be called by different names, so long as I don't try to conceal that they are both me (and why should I want to, since I want them to be synthesized in my own head).