Are you the same person you were as an adolescent or very different?

Having raised our own family I can see how personality traits that are apparent at a VERY young age, persist through childhood and into adulthood. I think that is the only way to answer this question. Some of the more subjective impressions one has as a child about 'self' can certainly be modified as one matures. Eventually we work at becoming more the sort of person we imagine we would like to be.

I think I was quite shy as a child and a young teenager, but began to realise that you didn't have any fun that way! so I worked at having the confidence to become more of a sociable being.....that was sometimes quite terrifying. That said, I can now say 'no' to social demands that I have no interest in so I suppose it is all about learning about and liking who you are.