You’re allowed to change your mind about who you are. That’s not being fake. That’s paying attention.

Updating a description of yourself gets treated as dishonesty, as though the earlier version was a promise. It was a best guess made with less information. Deciding at fifteen that you are the funny one is a reasonable guess, and holding to it at nineteen out of consistency is the dishonest move.

When somebody calls the new version fake, understand what the complaint is about, which is usually that the old you was easier to predict. You do not owe anybody predictability. Say what is true now and expect to revise it again.