#self-identify

[ridiculouspickles]

[voice-of-bennuma]

I've been thinking...

hypothetically... if I self-identify as reclusive, and actually start telling people that and own the fact that is part of who I am and suggest that people should accept it as 'normal' for me...

...then am I, in fact, going INTO a 'recluse' closet, rather than coming 'out' of one?

Basically, am I more of a "closet recluse" if I am 'in' the closet about it, or out of it?

(I'm really the same me either way, so I guess that's what matters most.)

Anyway, it just strikes me as funny, the way the semantics look to me in a visually-interpolated way. Wouldn't a closet recluse be someone who pretends not to be, and thus is not hiding in a closet? On the other hand, owning it can be like hiding in a closet, asking people not to open the door?

ok, bye bye (for now)

[kenwhytock]

Quotation: "I don't tell me who you are, you tell me who you are. And that is who you are." by Ken Whytock

[journeytohealmyself]

“Our identity is what we think others think of us.”

Jay Shetty

It is an imagined ideal. So who are you?

[astigmathic-blog]

The desire to present oneself as leading as normal a life as possible and the strategies adopted were found to be integrity related to their attitudes to asthma, their prescribed medication and to the ways in which they saw the issue of control in respect to their physical condition.

Adams, Pill & Jones, 1997. Medication, chronic illness and identity: The perspective of people with asthma. Social Science & Medicine, 45(2), pp.189–201.

[jayunpluggedcomic]

Hey, it's Wednesday, here's a comic about somethin' (maybe?)!

[micronerd01]

I self identify as trans fats.