intellectual badass

A lot of people say that labels are limiting and confining, but I find there to be a sense of confirmation and freedom in labels. Finding a label that fits gives me an "aha!" moment--I feel like I'm okay, like there is something to explain this strangeness I'm feeling. It makes me feel better, to know how to describe myself--I can't stand not knowing how to describe something, my identity included. It's not really something that I need to know in order to justify myself to other people, but instead so that I can categorize myself in my head in order to go about my usual business without my identity slopping all over the place waiting to be neatly filed away. 

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