Getting a label for something can totally be a good thing. I've felt that way about getting diagnoses for illnesses, for finding words to match my philosophical outlooks, and for finding terms that worked for my identities... So, yea, labels can be problematic, but they are also really really helpful in ways. And not having one for something - yea, it's hard. To not have the language to talk about something so essential to your being? Hard to make community out of that, hard to process it, hard to fight oppression of it, hard to really DO anything with it. And some folks are more comfortable in that kind of space, but me? I always like having the words and labels. So, yea, this post made a lot of sense to me.
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