Is it normal to have different personalities around different people?
Is it normal that I have carefully designed multiple personalities and I switch between them when I'm around different people?
There's one for my parents and two for two different groups of friends. When I meet new people, I'm first very passive and quiet, since I need time to come up with a personality they might like. Of course these personalities are not completely fake, they are just tweaked versions of the real me.
I think I started doing this around high school. Back then I had some problems with a few friends. Nowadays I have no problems in joining a new group of people and nobody knows my deepest thoughts, which gives me the space I need.
Only problem is that it's very stressful.