https://youtu.be/j_d2jm2-mSM go check this out if you like hearing neurodivergent people talk about queer stuff and gender
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I dislike it when people write off all labels because getting labels has helped me so much with knowing who I am and what help I need, it might just be because I fit very cleanly into them but my labels have been a huge part of my journey of self identity
1 week ago
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I feel like the best way to introduce the labels I call myself is with a tierlist of what labels I think fit me best A tad inefficient and doesn't work in conversation but pretty neato in my opinion
2 weeks ago
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Yeah, I completely agree. I was feeling down today after a… let’s just say bigoted comment on Fir’s newest video, so I thought to go see if you had posted anything on here, and this made me feel better. I agree that the expectation of everyone having a label shouldn’t be there, and that labels are very flawed. This doesn’t affect me personally, but everything said here is true.
2 weeks ago
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This made me think a bit more about my own labels. There’s a number I could say fit me, but only a couple I’d actually introduce myself with. Part of it is microlabels, but the other part is that my romantic orientation (or lack thereof) is confusing. It doesn’t feel right for me to give it a label; it just feels better to explain how I feel to someone. Your last paragraph especially made me think. Yeah, there really is that expectation that you either have a label or are trying to figure it out. I do like to figure myself out, but maybe I’m okay with being unlabeled-romantic. There’s nothing wrong with that, just like there’s nothing wrong with having a given label.
2 weeks ago
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crazy how far you came ever since the start of your channel :3
2 weeks ago
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Honestly, as hard as it is to label yourself sometimes, I think trying out different ones can help you discover yourself too? For the longest time I thought I was just a girl but when I found out the demigirl label was a thing I tried out being more androgynous and realized I was some shades of non-binary as well as transfem. Labels are hard, but they can be nice. :]
2 weeks ago
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A: I saw that video too, can agree that it's great B: I want to add that so much of labeling people is based off of looks, and it makes me a little sad. I look just like a normal guy, but I don't interpret myself as "male." I see myself as- well that's complicated. But I'm Genderfaun (He/They ^^) at least to me. Maybe Demiboy, maybe Agender, maybe 🥚, I'm still working it out. What I mean to say is: I wish people didn't take everyone at face value. Oh damn I just realized I just rambled a little there Thanks for reading I guess
2 weeks ago
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Erin the Enby
as someone who could describe myself as an androgynous to masc presenting transfem non-binary genderfluid lesbian, i feel everything in this video so hard. (go check it out, by the way, it's really good)
i could introduce myself with just "queer", but then people would likely make false assumptions. i could say *all* of those labels, but that's very awkward, and would be very confusing too. i could introduce myself with just 1 or 2, but that would also lead to false assumptions.
if i just said i'm transfem, people would assume i'm femme, which i am not. if i just said i'm a lesbian, people would likely assume that i don't have anything going on with my gender, which i very much do. if i just said i'm genderfluid, people would assume my gender goes across the full spectrum, while it's really only ever fluid different shades of non-binary. (or maybe a girl sometimes? i'm not sure, gender is confusing)
i could just go without labels and just say my gender is weird, but personally, i want people to have a decent idea of what my gender is like - and, most importantly, be able find community with people who use the same labels as me.
labels are inherently a very flawed concept, but honestly, i think the only problem with their use is *expecting* people to use labels. if we removed the expectation of people having labels, i think they would honestly just be a helpful tool for people like me who *do* want to use them - even if they are still far from perfect.
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