Character-ing

I want to create a character’s identity so wholly that I cannot help but follow their responses through the situations in a story.

What does this say about me?

I thought of the whole “lack of confidence in my own identity so I create another” thing.

I don’t think that’s it.

But off that,

Is it possible to write a character outside of yourself? Outside of your own bias or perceptions of others? Outside of stereotypes?

Is character writing simply the recycling of memories and experiences of different people? Does that make each character less unique?

Is it possible to create a unique identity at all?

What does this inability to escape personal bias say about people?

I think your identity is largely defined through the delimitation of your interests and understandings through the reaction of social norms with personal experience. At some point, with self-reflection, you become aware of both the pull of social expectations and the pull of personal proclivities and can more objectively recognize the bias of the constructed self. In this less subjective consideration of your self you may consider the influence of your rearing, your bias, on your behavior. It is in a similar place that you might find yourself writing a character of whose bias you are aware, for which perhaps may be thus accounted.

In the end, your identity is a product of your context. So too is a character.
It just so happens that the character's context is a product of your mind.

Remember that story that helped you discover how you think?
Get to know the protagonist:
Get to know yourself.