If people box you in with negative labels, should you stay or leave?

So you are in an environment where people have preconceived notions of you, and that narrative places you in a box where you can’t fully be yourself and limits your growth in many aspects of your life. When you try to break out of that barrier, it becomes a confirmation bias of that persona they placed you in. What would you do to break out?
If people box you in with negative labels, should you stay or leave?
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