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What strengths does your diversity give you? (lazysoci.al)

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People tend to focus on the negative but there's so many "symptoms" we have that are brilliant! What are yours?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How would my "diversity" give me strength? I am pretty monolithic inside of myself. I mean, obviously, one could say, that like all people, I do contain a multitudes I guess? But that is hardly special. Unles one is plural, it is hard to be "diverse" as an individual.

Did you perhaps mean "divergence from what is considered the norm"?

Yeah, there is absolutely nothing brilliant about my divergence. There is also nothing inherently bad about it. I am tired of the expectation to either treat it as a tragedy, or to use the fact of my difference as a selling point. I just am. I want to be allowed to be, and be safe.