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Old 01-05-2011, 02:48 PM   #5
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Excellent thread topic, thank you for starting this discussion, Nat.

I need to think on this a bit further, but I did have an immediate thought in response to the following:
"Do you feel the identity or identities you carry are barriers to authenticity or do you think of them as means of expressing your authenticity?"
It seems for me that the shedding of the desire to name/label myself has run a parallel course with an increased feeling of personal authenticity. In the last 5 years, identity labels have begun to feel increasingly restrictive to me, and more a source of division than cohesion.
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