I guess the challenge isn't really writing my whole thoughts, it's the desire to be my full self in every context. To not have to filter my writing online for fear of exposing some real detail about myself, and to not have to filter my speech or ideas around the people close to me, for fear of causing confrontation with friends and family that hold tightly to a faith and a political worldview that I've left behind.

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Well, like I said. If no one knows that you write online and that you don't say real names or locations, I don't think you need to worry about any confrontations. I know what it's like, though. I threw away all of my diaries and began covering my traces online where I feel that I said too much about my personal life.