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Describe who you are without using labels
by CloudedOtter » June 20, 2021 01:47 PM
Last Edited: June 20, 2021 03:16 PM
[P.] We saw this thread on another forum and it struck us as a very interesting exercise, especially since labels can have so many different meanings for different people, and as much as labels can help us get a finger on what we're experiencing, they can also like... homogenize all of the subtle variances in experience?
So, try to describe your identity and what you experience using as few labels and shorthands as you can! For example, if you're nonbinary, instead of saying you're nonbinary you would say something like "I'm something in the middle of boy and girl but I like to dress frilly," or "idk really gender as a whole is ??? and this was the least wrong-feeling label" or "none gender with left boy." (Credits to a friend for that last one.) I named gender as an example here, but honestly you could do whatever identities you wanna talk about: orientation, neurodivergence, etc.
(Just like. I'd hope this goes without saying, but no preaching about political stances or One True Gods or whatever, please. Let's keep it relatively light and chill and have fun reading about other people's experiences!)
So, try to describe your identity and what you experience using as few labels and shorthands as you can! For example, if you're nonbinary, instead of saying you're nonbinary you would say something like "I'm something in the middle of boy and girl but I like to dress frilly," or "idk really gender as a whole is ??? and this was the least wrong-feeling label" or "none gender with left boy." (Credits to a friend for that last one.) I named gender as an example here, but honestly you could do whatever identities you wanna talk about: orientation, neurodivergence, etc.
(Just like. I'd hope this goes without saying, but no preaching about political stances or One True Gods or whatever, please. Let's keep it relatively light and chill and have fun reading about other people's experiences!)
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by Himochi » June 20, 2021 02:03 PM
tacky hawaiian shirts and bad puns
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by BennyxD » June 20, 2021 02:12 PM
Very interesting :) Thanks for the topic I'm trying.
Conversation hearts, historys and
Mythical.
I hope I did it right xD
Conversation hearts, historys and
Mythical.
I hope I did it right xD
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by Dread » June 20, 2021 02:18 PM
Gorls and swords and dragons oh my
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by Gloria » June 20, 2021 02:39 PM
Trying to stay positive Despite It All and Kiss Gorl
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by CloudedOtter » June 20, 2021 02:39 PM
Last Edited: June 20, 2021 02:52 PM
[P.] To talk about myself specifically... (other Otters will speak for themselves if they feel like it later)
The quick, snappy, half-joking self-descriptors:
- A weird amorphous pile of ever-flailing hands and masks (hey, that sounds familiar)
- A Creature looking for people to form Contracts with ／人◕‿‿◕人＼
- A Being squished unceremoniously into a weird chronically inconvenient meat shell (with a bunch of other Beings)
In more detail:
I'm someone who tends to feel less centered in who I Am and more in what I do and my relationships to other people.
I have Not Much Interest At All in sexuality. I tend to think about relationships less in terms of sweeping labels like "platonic" and "romantic," and more on what the parties involved do for each other and what boundaries have been defined in that specific relationship. I don't assign much meaning to crushes even if I occasionally experience them.
I don't really feel like an entity that's Meant To Exist in the human world. I feel very out of place, almost claustrophobic, in a human body and under human labels like "boy" or "girl." I have a tendency to think of myself as nonhuman, specifically a celestial or a fae or something similar, and I've decided that whether that's metaphorical or literal or psychological or spiritual or whatever is a red herring. I am still who I am at the end of the day and I am content to make my peace with it even if I don't know Why I'm this way. (And again - all in all, I place more importance on the things I do and the relationships I have to others and the world than on What I Am.)
The quick, snappy, half-joking self-descriptors:
- A weird amorphous pile of ever-flailing hands and masks (hey, that sounds familiar)
- A Creature looking for people to form Contracts with ／人◕‿‿◕人＼
- A Being squished unceremoniously into a weird chronically inconvenient meat shell (with a bunch of other Beings)
In more detail:
I'm someone who tends to feel less centered in who I Am and more in what I do and my relationships to other people.
I have Not Much Interest At All in sexuality. I tend to think about relationships less in terms of sweeping labels like "platonic" and "romantic," and more on what the parties involved do for each other and what boundaries have been defined in that specific relationship. I don't assign much meaning to crushes even if I occasionally experience them.
I don't really feel like an entity that's Meant To Exist in the human world. I feel very out of place, almost claustrophobic, in a human body and under human labels like "boy" or "girl." I have a tendency to think of myself as nonhuman, specifically a celestial or a fae or something similar, and I've decided that whether that's metaphorical or literal or psychological or spiritual or whatever is a red herring. I am still who I am at the end of the day and I am content to make my peace with it even if I don't know Why I'm this way. (And again - all in all, I place more importance on the things I do and the relationships I have to others and the world than on What I Am.)
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by Rosewater » June 20, 2021 03:19 PM
Ooh, I've thought about this one.
My teal-and-purple backpack, that always has a bunch of first aid supplies in the front pocket. A rosebush in your front yard, you try to prune it for its health but it remains fairly untamed. The Trick-or-Sweet Care Bear. Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. This shirt I got a long time ago from Goodwill with a scan of a sloth on it that said "Slothin' Around". A lot of stupid shirts, actually. Drawing to forget, drawing to remember. Apparently bears have an aesthetic sense and will sit around just staring at lakes or trees because they're pretty. Look at this, it's funny. Ok, now this one.
My teal-and-purple backpack, that always has a bunch of first aid supplies in the front pocket. A rosebush in your front yard, you try to prune it for its health but it remains fairly untamed. The Trick-or-Sweet Care Bear. Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. This shirt I got a long time ago from Goodwill with a scan of a sloth on it that said "Slothin' Around". A lot of stupid shirts, actually. Drawing to forget, drawing to remember. Apparently bears have an aesthetic sense and will sit around just staring at lakes or trees because they're pretty. Look at this, it's funny. Ok, now this one.
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Re: Describe who you are without using labels
by BirdieBird » June 28, 2021 03:35 AM
Last Edited: June 28, 2021 03:35 AM
I love cats and sooooo other animals I can’t choose. The description on the Chatterbox. Fits. Me. Perfectly.
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