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Samuel Penate
@samuelpenate · 1:52

My identify struggles

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I struggled a lot during my childhood to know who I really was until recently that I discovered that I was non binary, that I am very passionate about my feelings and the freedom that I have to decide who I really want to be. Sometimes I would have to hesitation to come forward and say who I really was because a lot of people had the stigma that being non binary
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Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94 · 1:09
Hey Sam, I did see this when you posted it, and I regret I didn't reply sooner, but I really like the fact that you're open with your with yourself so that you can be open with other people. I feel like a lot of people lie to themselves and don't express their true identity because they're afraid of the reality of it. And it's really, I guess, powerful when you choose to accept yourself in each way that you are. Yes
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Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 2:49
They just can't wrap their head like, they're just like, you don't ascribe to any gender and they're like, what? You feel like a man? I'm like, no, because then I'd be transgender, like, man. And they're like, okay, so then you're a woman. I'm like, I don't resonate as a woman either. Some days I feel really masculine, some days I feel really feminine and some days I feel in the middle
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Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 0:45

@Dee94

That's a huge part place where the problem lies. But at the same time, that's like a big problem. They shouldn't be taking that out on other people just because we're living our truth. So, yeah. Anyways, I agree with you 100%
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Samuel Penate
@samuelpenate · 1:19
The community has this huge stigma to always look up in the loop and just if you're wrong for the way that you are and not being able to express yourself really changes the emotions of people in general though, I think it's really horrible just the idea of letting people down and just judging them because it really doesn't do anything rather than just harming and putting people depressed because they don't have the best way to show that they are being accepted and they have a place to come and be comfortable though
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