It is impossible to be given an identity.
Those who tell you otherwise are giving you nothing; merely chains and restraint dressed as armour. If you say I am a... anything, that is not an identity.
That is a label, and the only difference between that label and all the ones you rebel against is that you attached this one yourself, carving the scarlet letter into your flesh with the knives given to you by those who are like you in that single facet, and doing this in the blissful belief that it will make you free.
It will not.
If you answer the question of who are you? with anything that is not a variation of I am me, you have given yourself away.
And by doing so, you can no longer tell where you end and where your label begins, and you treat all assaults on the label as assaults upon your own body.
You are no longer your own light. You are fuel for their fire.
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