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This journal is an 'alt' journal---it's specifically for viewing groups, posting poetry/creative contemplations, and chatting with people who I might not ordinarily.

I have a rather uncertain personal identity. "Normalcy" is a concept that suggests that there is some normal template that all differences between people are simply deviations from.

I don't like that world view.

I'd like to think of myself as being more than a little-kid doll, as more than a Barbie or Ken, more than a G.I.Joe. I don't want to see myself as being someone who just doesn't reach the potential of what I'm supposed to be----and being unable to do so. Certainly not when it comes to my self-worth.

There are cultural standards and expectations. I'm in the U.S.A., and I deal with our little 'media-barrage' of the Ideal Person. I'm not skinny, I'm not obese. I'm a little on the short side. My hair is not frizzy, curly, wavy, or especially smooth or shiny. It's fairly flat hair, and I like it, but I would never be in a make-up commercial as the End Product. I'd always be the Before.

I'm not strongly committed to monogamy, or my sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social standing, economic worth, physical stature, or religion.
These things are... variable. There is a range, not mere separated dichotomies. Some people exist in in-between places, some people exist completely outside the normal expectations AND the usual deviations.
I am a deviant. I am not a juvenile delinquent, and I have no criminal history. I don't feel a strong moral urging against stealing food from the school cafeteria, especially not with how much the all-you-can-eat thing costs.

Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Trans-Queer-Questioning-Intersex-Ally spectrum. Polyamority. Multiplicity. Otherkin. Pagan spiritualities.

If our culture describes the Middle-aged--White--Protestant--Male, the 'W.A.S.P', as the normal figure in authority, then the previous list are the people who are not normal. I identify myself more easily with the "Other" than the homogenous so-called "normal".

I'm not from Stepford, and I don't like having ANY more common cultural values than necessary.
I don't want people to kill each other without having each others' opinions.
I don't like reductionist behaviorism that claims people are merely the components of their parts with no heart, creativity, or soul, and then divides us into all the components and differentiates us by them.


People are the components that make them up, and they are the sum of them--- the isolated parts, and the connections between those parts. Masculine and feminine, reductionist and holist thought... they come together to form this web of being.

These are the things that I care about. There is a range of options.

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