Adjectives are not for Yourself

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Am I fat? thin? behave feminine? have long hair? too slow? fast? generous? loving?

These are all questions I bother myself about very often. After a moment of reflection, I realized the glaring redundancy in these questions. I never “behaved like a girl”, “like a thin person” or a “smart person”. I couldn’t! it is technically impossible because I AM my frame of reference for the rest of the world. Whereas I…