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schrödinger's cat
Varies. Inconsistent. Depends on mood:
When I was in my teens I felt ugly, physically clumsy and awkward, badly dressed, physically weak, slow, and unlikely to be listened to or taken serious. When I'm down I still feel like that a bit. In my 20s all that changed. My life improved no end, so I wasn't depressed any more. I lost weight and that made me feel better about myself. (Low self-esteem makes your movements tense and awkward; having a positive self-image changes that almost automatically.) The rest was over-compensation finally giving off results. After another few years I even realized that what I had come to think of myself was no longer true.