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Old Jun 11, 2014, 08:40 AM
kraken1851 kraken1851 is offline
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Hey CrazyStupidLife,

I cannot answer directly to your question, but I understand the importance of labels. For the longest time, I thought I didn't need them, feeling that knowing who I was and how I felt was enough. However, recently I have felt a need to apply such a label to myself, identifying my gender identity as non-binary and androgynous. Using these labels helps me to communicate with others, although ultimately I have a feeling that my identity (like everyone else's probably) is too individual to really fit into a box as represented by the label.
Labels/boxes can be constraining and limiting (especially the heteronormative binarisms that we are so often faced with), but they can also help us feel more secure - finding the "non-binary androgynous box" for me meant that suddenly, there were others "like me", a community I could go to for support.

The great thing about the labels that _we_ decide to give to ourselves is, however, that we can also get rid of them. Couldn't you just try for a while to adopt the label of either bi or bi-curious and see what it does for you? Does it empower you, or does it place constraints on you that feel awkward? If the label doesn't work, abandon it! Don't feel that you have to take a once and for all decision now!
Thanks for this!
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