High fit

Parental Controls shifted dramatically for Riz Ahmed when he experienced that racist attack at eight years old. Instead of just accepting how he was raised to see himself as belonging anywhere, he suddenly had to choose who he would become in a world that saw him as different. He began code-switching between environments, becoming different versions of himself at his upper-class school versus his neighborhood, actively deciding what parts of his identity to show in each space rather than just defaulting to one way of being.