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Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

And you have zero idea how to put in effort, how to actually work at something, and everyone around you asks why you’re not trying harder… and it’s because you literally don’t know how.

You’ve breezed through everything before this, you’ve gotten A’s without any effort at all, without having to do more than glance at the material. You’ve memorized and regurgitated facts you heard once on a test absolutely perfectly. You’ve been told over and over again how smart you are, are ‘gifted’ you are.

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

you know how for a lot of people being in heat makes them turn Evil(Tm)? Humidity does that to Vulcans. No one notices except for the Vulcans themselves but put these guys in a wet/damp (hot or cold) planet and they’re ten seconds away from breaking a table in half. They’re been talking about philosophy for an hour, no voices have been raised but phrases are getting shorter and shorter. Everyone around them is Worried.