Katie H- Is there such a thing as a “true you”, and does it have to stay constant?

someone in the last class used the phrase "true you" in relation to talking with someone, meaning that if you intend to hide parts of your personality you are not allowing the other person to see your "true self" which is rude to them. as I have discussed previously, the use of words like true are inherently problematic in a philosophic sense. this is because the word true implies a sense of stability. when something is true is it absolute, unwavering and unarguable. however, I know the self I was last year or the year before that is very different from the self I am today. so your "true self" doesn't really exist; it is changed and altered with every bit of information you learn or new opinion you change or form. however, being authentic is more in line with what was being discusses. authenticity is more along the lines of allowing other people to see all the opinions your have and all the changes in your personality, even if they dont match theirs. however, a "true self" is psychology is defined as "a sense of self based on spontaneous authentic experience and a feeling of being alive, having a real self with little to no contradiction". but one of the most amazing parts of being a person is that I am allowed to contradict myself. I am allowed to have beliefs more complex then a black and white yes-no answer. while a feeling of being alive is nice, people with mental illness struggle to achieve this but they are still true to themselves. the idea of the self has been wrestled with since Plato so I highly doubt ill have the answer, but I do know that the idea of the "true self" needs some more grounding before it becomes a useful phrase.