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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t identify with people like that. People looking like me has never meant they are similar to me.

Nobody represents me other than me. Other people share values and interests and experiences but we aren’t identifying with each other. I don’t look at other autistic people and feel any connection. Other women with anorexia never felt like a group I inherently understood.

The closest I come to identifying with others is characters in fiction. Still not identifying as Olympia Binewski or anyone though.

Idk, maybe others identify with people more but I’ve never seen myself reflected in another person. They are just a whole other being that’s unknowable to me.