Taking on others personality?

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Yes, but some do it much more, because they have a difficulty learning social cues and behavior.

I used to when I was younger. I had an alter ego when I was teenager. Basically I took on the personality of my best friend/personal hero. He was a gangster. I took on all the mannerisms, values, everything. I did this because I thought it would help me make friends.

Now that I am older, I don't care. I am trying to figure out who I am and be true to that. If my employer likes me and my close family is okay with me, I am fine. I have no incentive to try to fit in or hide who I am.

I don't mimic people to fit in. There have been times I've mirrored people's rude behavior to show to them what they look like. None of them like it but I'm not out to please those who are going to be rude anyway.

I occasionally modeled the behaviors of others because the suggestion to “just be yourself” didn’t quite work. As, “just being yourself” meant, sitting in my room in solitude, playing games with myself (solitaire, backgammon, etc) or reading or watching TV (this was before the time of computers and video games) or staring out the window (one of my favorite pastimes, when I was young).

Occasionally isn't so bad.

No, I don't take on others' personalities or mimic them. My own personality is what I show, quite out of my control to show it.

I don't mimic other people's personalities. My un-personality is what I show.