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The researchers speculated that younger people displayed more significant personality changes because their personalities were still in development and were therefore less fixed. Did May not have a fixed personality? She thought about the code-switching she had come to master so well. Conscientious daughter around her mother and her friends from church and school. Docile, hardworking student, whether studying academics or the piano. Confident, in-on-the-joke wing-woman to her friends, even when one of them would make a throwaway comment about how May wasn’t “really a minority”
because she was half white. The prosecutor who, in the words of the cops who worked with her, “was like a dog with a bone.”
May wondered if perhaps all her efforts to be the type of person who could fit in anywhere and find a way to please anyone had made her so malleable th...
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Regardless of the reasons, May had somehow gone from being a person who found energy in the company of others to one who needed downtime, who found energy in solitude. And while she had enjoyed her time at the beach house, she knew that she needed to get back to her work, her life, her routine, her isolation. Would she ever revert to her former disposition? It seemed like ...
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She became the latest example of what she learned the internet called a Milkshake Duck—a person lauded online for some admirable characteristic who turns out to be horrible in real life.
