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I never buried anything in the closet, literally or metaphorically, but I certainly was embarrassed about a lot of my favourite things during my "try hard to be cool" phase. I downplayed my interest in games and anime, though didn't outright deny them. My biggest issue was not wanting to seem like a loser so I could get a date. It later became apparent that my real problem with that was from a combination of obliviousness and cowardice... The irony about when I did try to cover my interests up a bit is that my lack of confidence driving me to do it was probably worse in terms of "coolness".

Ultimately what I learned was that nobody cared anyway. My high school was weird though, maybe, as I remember this dude in auto shop showing us all his Akira Toriyama related recreations like Crono and Goku and stuff.... The toughest ass-kickers took shop (I was not one of them) and we're critiquing artwork... I stopped feeling shitty about myself when I stopped worrying about all that. My wife breaks balls about some dorky stuff still, but she doesn't actually care. She said girls find it disarming.

Further proof in the pudding for "be yourself" for me was my buddy (who is more or less Zac Efron in that Neighbors movie, albeit smarter). We'd be talking about DBZ power levels and hypothetical stuff and girls would just be paying attention and not mocking anyone. Sometimes they'd try to participate, like when we were discussing our excitement for Skyrim and getting all hyped and some pretty girl randomly enters the conversation like "are you talking about the new Dragon Ball Z game or something? They're making one." - be yourself and good things will happen, the after-school specials were right.
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"message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888