Adding on to the discussion. The ideal that social foundation are only a portion of humanity is a falsehood.
Humanity is and always will be one hundred percent tied to social foundation and will not exist without it.
As per there would be no advancement, no culture, no history, no nothing of what can be called 'humanity' without sociality.
We only even track time and chart the planet and world in the endeavor to link each other more socially.
Inventions are only spurred and prosper due to social cues.
Humanity would not even have started cave painting and hunting without a social foundation.
As the very basis of respect for your parent and drive to protect a child and feed them is the first social foundation.
No creatures exist without a social foundation, antagonistic or cooperative, cross specials or homogeneous.
I digest. On to the principle advice.
Although sad, the ideal of being children and hiding ones true self behind a veil of falsities is literally betraying the whole point of being social.
Then upon a chance that once people like this false self you portray it leads you to have to basically go over a checklist of the lies you've slung in order to maintain a sensible amount of being 'liked'.
All because you being you is a social anomaly and doesn't go along with the 'norm,' you must have some character flaw? Is that not that the same way bigots view the homosexual or alternatively gendered individuals? It sure is. Even not on the note of sexuality it is comparable on all levels, we shouldn't lie to ourselves.
Forcing yourself into a cookie cutter to become a part of a circle and leading yourself the choice to bland your personality to the point you can fit into it? I'm sorry but there is a clear line between toleration and not tolerating. One shouldn't need to bland themselves to find out the appropriate balance. It sort of leads to the ideology of common sense.
The ideal choice would be to find out what things people do not tolerate or have thick enough skin to. Once you pinpoint these aspect you can instead decide on the much better option of toning it down rather then cutting out what might be an integral part of your personality.
Should those involved with a group be unable to accept the natural way you are, why instead would you become depressed or insulted that those people are unaccepting of you being you? Its like attempting to force puzzle pieces mismatched or a bolt with a different threading depth to a nut.
The comparable way if you truly wish to be together in friendship is likened to welding; you find a material that can bond the two separate pieces and find passion and fire within them, forming a lasting bond despite the fact you can be two very separate people. Even to the point where normally there would have been no way to form a bond!
Should there not be a material or common ground then both individuals should be mature and open mindedly accept this fact of each other. There shouldn't be fighting just because you don't enjoy the same things and are stuck in a room together doesn't mean you should be at arms against one another. Though that doesn't mean you should be hugging and pals either.
It does however insinuate that there can be held a conversation like mature respectable humans.
