Spot on. I'm one of those who eventually adapted to the way people are. Mostly. I even came to see all these customs as "true", in a perverse sense, just becaus

Spot on. I'm one of those who eventually adapted to the way people are. Mostly. I even came to see all these customs as "true", in a perverse sense, just because people do in fact hold them in their minds. But internally, I still distinguish between things that are true independently of human social wiring, and things that are only "so" because a lot of people think so. And my loyalty is still mostly to the former, and this probably does still limit me socially, and perhaps even career-wise. But I'm not sure I would feel better about giving in than I feel about being a little limited in those ways.