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Using social labels is a two edged sword.
When we label ourselves and each other, it simplifies our social interactions. This way of simplifying can lead to both easier contact but also be a rich soil for distrust, discrimination, disconnect.
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- Labels serve to contain a whole profile, a whole story. The ability to cooperate with strangers knowing just a few such labels is a uniquely human ability.
- When I found the ADHD label, it helped my self-knowledge work by leading me to good sources.
- Generations as labels can help connect and understand, but also to assign biased judgement on someone based solely on their age.
- Such a generalised statement is that Y and Z generations didn’t learn to wait. 3b1a-gen-y-and-z-did-not-learn-to-wait
- Crafting alternative labels can be a way of solving problems, finding new ways.
- ie. the GRSM label replacing the LGBTQ label can solve some inclusion-exclusion debates. 5b1a1a-grsm-can-be-a-more-inclusive-alternative-label-in-place-of-lmbtq
- Switching my personal story, my focus from one meaning of my name to another (from “good and respectful” to “euthymia”) a helpful thing for me.
- I wrote about this (in Hungarian) on my KNT blog: https://kocsisnagytimea.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/euthymia/
- The “label” and state of “published” gives such legitimacy to my notes that is healing for my maximalism and my ADHD-shame - not by the label, but by my decision to put the label on.