Probably a neural effort threshold thing, I'd imagine. I currently feel like I have to be compartmentalized to function, and it takes a lot out of me because it's not the way my brain is structured.
Other people find it easier because that's good for their brains. Mine tries to wodge everything together - things that are out of sight in any given moment become difficult-to-impossible to remember or track. I find myself deliberating for hours over whether to post something to a given platform, evaluating the risk of it being tracked back to another platform or identity.
I assume that people who can keep things in opaque storage containers and not just completely forget that the object exists and buy a new one can also deal with posting to more than one platform in more than one identity more effectively than I can!
I think the basic issue is that I have to do a lot of things consciously that others do automatically, so the actions involved in switching modes are more costly for me than for others.
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Other people find it easier because that's good for their brains. Mine tries to wodge everything together - things that are out of sight in any given moment become difficult-to-impossible to remember or track. I find myself deliberating for hours over whether to post something to a given platform, evaluating the risk of it being tracked back to another platform or identity.
I assume that people who can keep things in opaque storage containers and not just completely forget that the object exists and buy a new one can also deal with posting to more than one platform in more than one identity more effectively than I can!
I think the basic issue is that I have to do a lot of things consciously that others do automatically, so the actions involved in switching modes are more costly for me than for others.