Gawd, I'm not even sure, these days. I suppose that how honestly I come across depends on how much I limit or audit myself for the audience. Online, I feel that I have been most *honestly* myself in very anonymous forums and groups.. where there is no thought of social reception, fear of social acceptance/rejection, no need to uphold intellectual standards nor relationships. I have revealed parts of myself online that I could rarely reveal via work/family/friend interactions. Yet, I feel like at the heart of it, all of these 'facades' or 'masks' we put on, are still authentic extensions from a more, core self. It's really the way you approach self understanding. You can believe that what is more consistent with self is 'truer', or what is more hidden, or what is an observable pattern, even if you have to stand back from another galaxy to realize it. But ultimately, I think that everything that comes from self is a creation of self, with various variables (circumstances, feelings, thoughts, etc). "How am I not myself?" the famous quote from I heart Huckabees. On the psychobabble surface we see a person that molds themselves to behave as others hope/expect.. and we call that inauthentic. But even that construct was still created from the core self. You can not be anything but who you are, expressed in infinite ways. The issue has never been authenticity, but accepting that the self is in flux constantly. And most importantly, that this is not a bad thing.