If you’re disowning parts of your Nyyki-ness to survive … how exactly is that not suppression? Also , I’m not sure what part of my post that’s even in reference to? I am doubly baffled.

Also, we often ARE the adjectives people hang on us … though not ONLY those things, but their opposites and orthogonals as well. Also like, my friend maeritrae hung the word “autistic” on me to see how it fit, and she was hella right. People who know us well can sometimes see traits of ours in conversation with other traits and see them as a pattern rather than the way things have always been. Outside perspective can be helpful, when people are looking with a clear mind and an open heart.