Has Your Personality Stayed the Same or Changed over Life?

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I’m really curious to hear your experiences. My personality is much different from when I was a child. When I was 10, I was gutsy, bold, annoying, outgoing, and wasn’t afraid to go after what I wanted. I’m pretty much the opposite of that now. My personality shifted in my mid-teens. It might have been somewhat intentional because I was trying to fit in with what was expected of me.

Is that normal? Or does a person’s personality remain fairly static over time?

I am a completely different person now than I was 10-15 years ago. During my high school years, I was desperate to fit in and many of my peers rejected desperate types so I was an anonymity, an outsider. In fact, I came off to many of my peers as a "creep."

I've mellowed in many ways. My mind doesn't race at light speed from thought to thought any longer as it did every waking moment when I was young. Now it just travels last half of light speed.

I'm more rigid and inflexible on a lot of things than I was.

However the wonderment I had as a child has never changed (THANKFULLY).

At the core, I'm still me and always have been.

I think I have changed, mostly for the better, in the last five years.

I am told my personality has not changed much.

I have totally recreated who I am in the last 5 years.
It was about time.

Not really.
My behaviors changed but it's more about giving up trying to fit in. Unmasking, not real changes to personality.
Okay, I'm less anxious than I used to be. I enjoy maturing

When I was a child, I was a hyperactive little dork with poor impulse control and no fear.

As an adult, I'm a stoic intellectual badass with excellent impulse control and a small bit of fear. Still a dork.

In my case I'm not exactly sure. For most of my life, I'm known to be moody.
Yet, I don't exactly knew what it truly meant. The simplest would mean someone who doesn't hides emotions and generally emotional.
It's not just my functioning and competence that changes, but also my demeanor, my maturity and reactions...

At the same places, at the same presences, even at the same situations. Who's or what's at front of me barely factors these things.
I can remember them, recall everything I've felt and thought -- sometimes it's contrary to what I'm currently thinking, feeling, and what I would've done.


My inconsistencies isn't psychological, but something else entirely.
Truly, which is the 'real' me then?
That little girl in a woman's body who likes bugging others for candies? That scary lady who might've explode anytime? That sad lady who might want a hug but would push you away? That prideful girl that no one would dare to cross? That woman that has that forgiving aura and a patience of a saint? That reckless girl who couldn't give damn? That lady who seems unemotional yet reliable? There were more I'm sure.
Note that I do not mask. I don't do pretends, and I would never establish any relations or interactions based on pretenses and pretending.

These traits... 'Happens' in most stages of my life. Only a few remained more consistent -- agender/pass off tomboyish, how I express my special interests, likes/dislikes, etc.

I fluctuate between these 'personalities' in span of weeks, months...
What if I tell you that the less stable ones, usually angry and reckless ones are slept deprived and barely have EF over their frustrations, cannot improve cannot grow up?
What if I tell you the happiest and stable ones have the best EF and therefore social skills, and is the highest level of maturity I had truly attained?
What if I tell you that prideful or sad one, or the less emotional ones just compensates things for the sake of emotional regulation?
And so forth, and so forth. They're 'all me', and I'm inconsistent apparently because my current condition says so.



So in a sense, I do change overtime. Yet at the same time, I do not. Not really. Not until I got rid of what's making me inconsistent.

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My personality hasn't changed much over the years but my behavior has. I think it just depends on how the person reflects on this topic. Our brains are most likely constantly rewiring throughout the years too, Behavior And personality way.

My personality hasn't really changed that much. I did a lit of unmasking over the past three years.