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Thou shalt not willingly take sh*t for being thine own self.

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ℹ️ Info about me and this blog can be found by clicking the following link: https://proudnb.tumblr.com/post/149819562107/about-the-blog

🎨 My space art blog: @timbercow

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Take care of the other nonbinary people around you whenever you can. Also, accept their help if you need it.

Helping each other reinforces the fact that our lives are worthy of protecting.

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Nonbinary people are beautiful, handsome, magnificent for the ways in which they bend, break and blend gender.

Being different in itself is a difficult, but often wonderful, way to be.

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You are your own proof.

You don’t necessarily need anyone to believe in you to believe in yourself.

You are enough.

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You deserve the freedom to be angry about the rights (or lack thereof) of nonbinary people.

You should be able to rage, and shout against your oppression.

Don’t think that your experiences with opression aren’t worth hearing out.

You deserve to have your voice heard, and your words read.

You are worth that consideration.

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You have spent a long time getting to a place where you can be content with being nonbinary.

So, don’t let someone stop you by saying that it’s “tacky” or “excessive” to show your pride.

You have become far too powerful to dim that light now.

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You can be nonbinary and keep your original pronouns if you want to.

You might want to reclaim your pronouns. Maybe you just like them! There are all sorts of reasons for using a set of pronouns.

Use what you feel fits you best.

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Nobody can know a nonbinary person by sight (unless they're wearing pride gear). Nonbinary people don't look like anything in particular.

So go out and dress for yourself whenever you can. It's chaos out there. Embrace it.

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You don’t have to be something or someone else to be an important part of this world.

A volcano or a roaring waterfall are magnificent, but even they can be rivaled by the shine of a dragonfly’s wing or the spiral of a seashell.

Maybe you are a powerful person, or maybe few know your name.

Regardless, you are enough just as you are.

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It's okay to just try things, and you can change your mind. You don't have to figure it all out first in order to make a perfect, one time coming out event.

While keeping the wellbeing of yourself and others in mind, go try it out and see if it fits you. It'll be okay.

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The very nature of being nonbinary is breaking rules.

So, if you ever feel like some “rules” in the nonbinary community are getting in your way, then ignore them.

You didn’t break from the cage of the gender binary only to put on shackles of another kind of conformity.

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Terms like pan, lesbian, bi, gay, etc. didn’t just spring into existence. These words were made to name experiences that were once unnamed.

So, if you wish, invent and use new terms to describe nonbinary orientations.

You have just as much right to define your orientation or sexuality as binary people.

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There are people out there who will (or already do) care for you as the nonbinary person that you are.

Don't worry about making yourself palatable for everyone. It's not possible and it means diluting the best of you.

Be yourself fully for your own sake and for the ones who want it all.

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You need to prioritize a life that is worth living for you as a nonbinary person, not sacrificing yourself for the comfort of those around you.

It could mean making space where you are in order to be yourself. Or, it might require escaping to a place where you can.

You're worth what it takes.

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Getting rid of nonbinary people would take the extinction of the entire human species.

We can't be argued out of existence or plucked from the human genome.

We will remain.

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Each and every one of your labels is important.

Nonbinary, lesbian, trans, asexual, gay, any combination of those and more are all vital to understanding the beautiful phenomenon that is you.

You should never have to downplay one label for the sake of another.

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Sometimes being nonbinary looks very similar to being just a woman or a man. Nonbinary-ness doesn't actually have a cohesive presentation. So, do whatever you want with it!

You don't have to perform. You just have to be you.