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RE: LGBTQ+ Talk: Sexual and romantic orientations | Labels?!
Good post! :-)
I recognize labels can both help and hinder people. As a psychologist I am used to labels and use them, but also try to look beyond them first: who is this person? What does he or she need/want? What label do I know that helps me understand what this person needs? And, most importantly: is the thing I use to help this person indeed helpful according to this person? If yes, YAY, if not: why not and how can we both find something that works?
It's how I treat people in life: if you want to give me a label: fine, but I will never assume I then know who you are, what you want, how you live, what you need. If you don't give me a label: fine too, let's just communicate and see who you are.
I completely agree.
Sometimes we can become blinded to who we really are if we try to become our label. We aren't labels, we are humans, and we might have happened to find a word that can describe us in a way, but not as a whole. So we shouldn't try to define ourselves only with labels, and we shouldn't try to do it with others either.
I want to quote @limabeing on this:
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