>>40680185
No worries, I dont mind! Feel like talking about these things can be a healthy exchange, just bear in mind that my perspective is coloured by being perceived as nonbinary without feeling like it.
For most people the traits they aspire towards is deeply linked to their sense of self: who you want to be, and how you want to be perceived, is an inherent part of how you already see yourself in relation to the rest of the world. Identifying as something is an act of reflecting on where you belong, and whether or not this belonging is something you’ve willingly and happily agreed to : are you a man because others want you to be a man, or are you a man because thats what you want to be?
Outside perception, intentionality, and self perception all play separate parts in this equation, but when it comes to nonbinary versus binary identities it commonly refers to something people feel rather than something people do. It all exists in layers.
The trouble being that binary gender identities and normative binary gender performances are so commonly joined together that most people fail to identify these as separate layers unless directly confronted with something that challenges it