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Reject labels! Or embrace labels! Do as you wish as long as you respect others!
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Question for my queer friends, especially gen z: why do you need a specific label to feel happy about whatever you are? Like, you're not allowed to love yourself until you've found a specific combination of sounds to denote where exactly you fall on every gender, sexual, and mental spectrum?
As a millenial, we were largely doing away with labels and it felt empowering. Just be whoever you are and do whatever you do. I can't wrap my head around wanting a label.
It helps you find a like minded group. In my case knowing there are other people on the spectrum helps me find other people and groups who are similar to me in that way and have similar struggles. They can give more targeted and therefore potentially more helpful advice than someone who doesn't have and can't fully empathize with those issues.