I really appreciated both the original linked post and this one. Thank you, you’ve been writing some great stuff recently.
One strategy I have, as someone who simultaneously would like to be truth-committed and also occasionally jokes or teases loved ones (“the cake you made is terrible! No one else should have any, I’ll sacrifice my taste buds to save everyone!”) is to have triggers for entering quaker-mode; if someone asks me a question involving “really” or “actually”, I try to switch my demeanour to clearly sincere, and give a literally honest answer. I… hope? that having an explicit mode of truth this way blunts some of the negatives of frequently functioning as an actor.
I think the triggers for quaker-mode are a decent way of handling it. I try and use both triggers and to switch based on mood and to remember which people are more Quakerish and which are more Actorish, but that pile of heuristics is not always reliable. It mostly works! Sometimes it doesn’t, and then I sort things out as best I can.
I really appreciated both the original linked post and this one. Thank you, you’ve been writing some great stuff recently.
One strategy I have, as someone who simultaneously would like to be truth-committed and also occasionally jokes or teases loved ones (“the cake you made is terrible! No one else should have any, I’ll sacrifice my taste buds to save everyone!”) is to have triggers for entering quaker-mode; if someone asks me a question involving “really” or “actually”, I try to switch my demeanour to clearly sincere, and give a literally honest answer. I… hope? that having an explicit mode of truth this way blunts some of the negatives of frequently functioning as an actor.
You are welcome, and thank you for saying so!
I think the triggers for quaker-mode are a decent way of handling it. I try and use both triggers and to switch based on mood and to remember which people are more Quakerish and which are more Actorish, but that pile of heuristics is not always reliable. It mostly works! Sometimes it doesn’t, and then I sort things out as best I can.
One Parselmouth to another, I hope it works too.