You’re allowed to be several things at once. The kid who plays linebacker can also bake a perfect lemon tart.

People get filed under one description early, often by a group that saw one side of them, and the file is hard to reopen. The cost is that you quietly drop the parts that do not match, not because you stopped liking them but because they need explaining. Nobody is owed a consistent character from you.

Name one thing you enjoy that does not fit the version of you your friends expect. Do it this week without framing it as a joke about yourself. The contradiction is not a problem to resolve, just more of what you are.