Who are you?

[bearbrikk]

I know this is a place for our pain. But I am curious. Who are you when you put that aside. Describe yourself apart from your labels and pain.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm nothing without my labels and pain. Just another mass of cells, tissues, and organs that has lived a meaningless existence and will die in a meaningless way.

 

[EyesOfNight]

A kindhearted smart human that attracts other people through passion and enjoyment allone. A person that can see the beauty in almost everything.
At least that's what others reported at some point.

This sounds absolutely disgusting. I'm not gonna say those words ever again.

 

[surroundedbydemons]

 

[derpyderpins]

Hard question to answer. If I just start listing qualities it'll read like a spec list, and I don't really know what other people think of me. Also really hard not to say something that doesn't go into labels and pain. I've already typed a few things and had to delete them because they're contradictory.

This probably isn't supposed to be taken that seriously. I guess that's a decent attribute to settle on: I'm someone who - if you ask them a question - is going to think about it a lot. Pensive. Whether it's overthinking or not I'll leave up to the crowd. If anyone wants to roast me that would be helpful too.

 

[ConfusedClouds]

This is one of the issues that set off a lot of my awareness and questioning and confusion.

Literally no clue.

If ever in a welcoming environment where you are encouraged to 'be yourself' then I feel like there's something I should be doing specific/different. I thought I was bumbling along OK until the world keeps saying to be proud of who you are and express who/what you want to be etc etc

 

[soulkitty]

I have no idea who I am I feel like my identity is rapidly shifting, I have no idea the kind of person I am but I really wish I knew. Who even am I??????

 

[untothedepths]

A person who finds it hard to trust virtually anyone and anything. Scared of people and events. Likes various things but has interests in things they grew up with and things they couldn't do. Will apologize and own up to mistakes even when they didn't need to apparently.

 

[Havnis]

"I am the man in the mirror"

 

[HereTomorrow]

An Asian college dropout working in retail, playing rare Japanese arcade rhythm games to cope. Having a massive need of emotional support while emotionally supporting others, for I hope my suffering can be converted into hope for those who want it.

Also chronically touch starved.

 

[Saturn_]

I'm nothing without pain. I will never be anything besides a purveyor and a receptacle of pain. My body and soul are nothing but a conversion unit; pain unto myself, then unto others. I can't in good conscience ascribe any positive or neutral labels to myself, as I feel that any self-love would be an act of egotism in the face of all the pain I've caused. There is very little which separates me from an inanimate object.

 

[EmptyHeaded]

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some
kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an
entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold
gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping you
and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably
comparable: I simply am not there."
Pardon me for quoting American Psycho, but I just think this part describes it very well.

 

[aidic]

Really, really? A sex object to be used, desired and controlled. I have no other purpose, but do like to dream sometimes.

 

[sancta-simplicitas]

I've recently thought a lot about the different singular ephitets that as a whole form what's supposed to be me. We have the basics, like: 31 years old, 162 centimeters, 55ish kilograms, non-binary, so Swedish it's depressing. Then we have the every day quirks, like: cat owner and lover, music enthusiast, nerd, artist, hobby cook, collector of vinyl records, antique glass and vintage porcelain figures. Then, if we dig a little deeper we get: socialist, free-thinker, altruistic misanthropist, puer aeternus, quite pretentious yet trash, perfectionist, caregiver and creative.

But most often I'm just a mess.

 

[Meteora]

I'm nothing without my labels and pain. Just another mass of cells, tissues, and organs that has lived a meaningless existence and will die in a meaningless way.

You are just smarter that others, I guess.

A person who finds it hard to trust virtually anyone and anything. Scared of people and events.

I relate....

Really, really? A sex object to be used, desired and controlled. I have no other purpose, but do like to dream sometimes.

That saddens me but I felt the same in the past.

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The question of "who am I" has tortured me ever since I was a teenager and never went away. I m a shroud, an empty body, a ghost. There is no "me". When I learned I have a dissociative identity disoreder.... well then at least I started to understand a little bit why I am nothing and no one.
It s a very painful topic for me.....
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I know this is a place for our pain. But I am curious. Who are you when you put that aside. Describe yourself apart from your labels and pain.

Who are you?

 

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

Who are you when you put that aside.

A terminally online politisperg schizo

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Nothing really. All I ever am is somebody who wants death beyond anything else and also somebody who does things because of compulsion, not because I want to. Aside from that, there is nothing else about me. I don't say this to self loathe or to be hyperbolic... trust me when I say that there truly is nothing to me without my pain and labels

 

[eatantz]

I am a lover of art, i am someone who loves music more than oxygen. A boring, hopeless romantic who reads too much fiction.

 

[ForgottenAgain]

I think part of me was shaped from the pain I endured in life. I'm much different than who I was more than a decade ago.

I guess the things that didn't change were my need to be creative, love of animals, sense of humour, being philanthropic, being nervous and prone to stress, shy, sensitive.

 

[Lady Laudanum]

Deez nuts