Mask on.

If you say/do something often enough, will you eventually really mean them?

Social constructs compels one to obey the path of least resistance. Peaceful non-confrontational course of actions. When really, you fantasize the very opposite. Imagining how a conversation or a decision might have gone differently if you spoke your mind.

But even in your lurid imaginings, the outcome is not good. Not on a long-term basis at least. Not when you're stuffed in the same freezing almost-vacuum as them.

So I say 'Yes' and agree, I bow my head and say nothing, I tolerate, I forgive and eventually forget.

Because 'No' is selfish. Disagreeing is subversive, only leads to open-ended questions that will only tire you even more quickly than it already is. Futile.

In the mean time, just smile, viciously. They don't know the difference. They never do. As long as you don't snicker, the mask stays on. Survival does not come without suffering.