Week 11

There are major differences between your perceived self and your presenting self. The way you perceive yourself means "how do you describe yourself as a person" and your presenting self means "how do you describe yourself when you are around other people?" This can also be described as "front stage and back stage" in other words, when you are "front stage" or in front of people/friends, you typically act differently then when you are alone (back stage). We all know that different people expect different things from us and we change our behaivor accordingly, but our true self does not usually emerge until we are alone with no other influence to change us.
We commonly see this "front stage" behavior at scool, work, and other public places where people attempt to impress other people. I remember a time when I was in highschool and one of my friends started to act a lot differently than before. This was the durring the transition from elementary school to middle school, and as you all know, that is the hardest of them all. She started wearing a lot of make-up, wearing tighter and more revealing clothes, and hanging out with the "popular" crowd. She became a jerk to me and our other friends at school, but after school she would call us up and appologize and ask to come over to hang out. She was putting on her "presenting self" at school, and at home she was back to her normal "perceived" self because nobody around her cared about her presenting self.