Lone Wolf, Letting Go
As comforting as it may be, labelling yourself can be super detrimental in the long run.<p>Maybe at first you attach a label to yourself to belong, or to find others who feel similarly. Maybe you do it as a way to try to &quot;skip&quot; past the parts of your life where you have to find out who you are, what you like, etc.<p>Once you attach such a label, for example &quot;I&#x27;m a democrat&quot;, &quot;I&#x27;m a lone wolf&quot;, &quot;I&#x27;m straight&quot;, etc., and maybe you even tell people and put it in your online profiles, you introduced inertia into your own personality. Find our you&#x27;re bisexual, or maybe your political opinions are a bit too complex to just say &quot;democrat&quot;, or maybe you enjoy working in teams if its the right people (as in this post). I may feel like I belong to a group now, but tomorrow that may change, and then I have to justify that to myself and others.<p>I will have to admit that either I changed, or I was wrong, and that can be very hard.<p>Labels are detrimental, and I would recommend not using them. Every person is their own individual, and there is very little sense in trying to list and specify every single group, label and subculture you are part of. Just replace it with &quot;I&#x27;m me&quot;, and that&#x27;s all you need.<p>Theres a lot of trendiness with labelling yourself &quot;ADHD&quot; or &quot;different&quot; or &quot;depressed&quot; (etc.) on social media, and the same rules apply here.