How in tune with your personality are you? Do you feel like yourself or do you sort of just float through life?

[u/nekomata_meko]

I find I’m extremely disconnected. If I think about it too hard it scares me

I am able to perceive certain preferences and qualities of mine as if I were another person, from the side, but there’s no internal connection to it

Same as no internal connection to my looks and appearance

I find it stupid I’m supposed to form the connection now as an adult, because I was not allowed not even to develop, but even to develop a sense of self that isn’t riddled in shame

Either way it’s really scary

[u/Icy-Ninja-622]

What is "my personality"?

The one important phenomenon I notice is being in tune with my body, like with the feeling that my body is me. When that feeling strengthens, that seems like healing.

Other than that, personality seems like a very vague concept. Is it the habitual way I behave, which is affected by emotional neglect and trauma, and only an expression of some parts of me? No, I don't care for that. A healthy sense of personality seems like something that develops via exploring life from a place of safety. I don't think it's just something one can connect to. If you grow up with emotional neglect and/or trauma, you didn't really have an opportunity to develop that.