penicillium-pusher: People like to identify with labels because it makes it easier to find terminology to explain what we’re experiencing, and it opens us up to a world where we’re not the only ones who feel this way. It’s not a way to be special, it’s a way to understand and belong.
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mischief-had-been-managed: My therapist asked me what demisexual means and when I told her, she got kind of quiet and was thinking and she was like “…I never knew there was a word for that. I think that’s what I am too” and it is so important that labels and terms exist, not to force them …