I shall. I believe nothing is impossible, so long as you're
   willing to change the context you are working from within.
   Some shifts of context are almost painful at first, because
   you're accustomed to doing things a certain way.
   I used to say "I don't care what other people think" but that
   was a lie.
   I *do* care what other people think, but I only care about the
   things they think about that are related to something I care
   about.
   Thankfully, knowing that I seem to fit the trope / archetype of
   the Doc Brown / Doctor Who / Nutty Professor, I allow that to be
   my persona, which affords me some freedoms in being more
   emotionally expressive than I might otherwise be, had I thought
   of "what people see" as "me".

   Since I'm in the continual process of discovery of 'me' - and
   since people generally view others based on stereotyped patterns
   of "what this or that 'group' of people are like" that they
   learned when they were young, AND they base a lot of their ideas
   about "people groupings" based on movies, tv shows, even more
   than tropes/stereotypes they find in their real lives...

   ...I knew that the appearance of "nutty professor guy who might
   be crazy but might be onto something" would be socially
   acceptable in its own way, hence appearances tongue emoticon -
   and that person is and is not me simultaneously.

   ...which is why I go forward bravely, without shame smile
   emoticon Thanks grin emoticon I love validation.