Interesting take OP. I’ve had similar thoughts too over the years. I wonder how much of that is rooted in our attachment styles growing up. That for whatever reason, we had to sacrifice our authenticity to remain attached to our caregivers. Maybe our authenticity was too much to handle for them. Maybe we needed to take care of them for a time and make ourselves small to give them the space they needed. And so we adopted this attachment style to survive. So you could say that we don’t trust our authentic selves now because growing up it wasn’t safe to and we project that out onto the world. But it’s become so entrenched in us that it’s hard to change. So while we should strive to be more authentic we should also be patient because our shape shifting was a survival strategy for so long.