when we get stuck on what we CALL people and things, as if it’s the absolute truth, it’s good to remember this☝️🌈 My dad taught me this when I was a kid as an example on how to separate reality from the current available definitions/explanations. Why? Because we might be fooled by the words if we don’t understand that WE made them up - to the best of our abilities. And of course, WE might call it one thing while someone else calls it another. This is how we should understand the world. 🩷🩷🩷🩷 Humans attempt to explain things, and as we understand things and people better, language evolves with us. That’s how it’s always been and always will be. 🤷♀️ My existence as a nonbinary person always seems to be a discussion about language rather than the truth of my experience as a human being. 🤔 People get stuck on the current language, uncomfortable with small updates here and there, not realizing that people like me have existed long before we had definitions for it. Just like people have existed in every single other way with or without certain definitions👀 So let’s be humble and curious with our words🩷🩷 What are your thoughts? 📝 Love you tataaaaa
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