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i feel so seen!!

I'm asexual. I figured that out not long after I first came across the term in high school. But figuring out my gender took a lot longer. I didn't really think about my gender identity for years, it wasn't until I was in college that I started trying to figure out what my gender was. That process took years.

I didn't really feel attached to my assigned gender, but I also didn't feel the gender dysphoria that trans people described. I didn't particularly feel like I was neither of those either. For a long time, I honestly didn't feel like any of the gender descriptions and identities I was coming across really fit. I just didn't care that much about what my actual gender was. Eventually I decided upon the agender label as that seemed the most apt. As the paper says, it's really hard to be truly without gender in this highly gendered world. Agender is a way of defining myself in a way that people who experience gender might be able to understand when "I'm just me." isn't really an acceptable answer to the "what's your gender?" question.

I don't mind being perceived as a gender, none of them are offensive to me. While I do like when I am perceived as male or at least not female, I think that more has to do with growing up female and not wanting to be pushed into traditional female roles and values than a connection or repulsion to any gender. I'm impossible to misgender because I frankly don't care.

Honestly, the biggest problem I have with my gender, is trying to define it to people. There's been a large push in recent years for asking people for their pronouns, or including pronouns in things like email signatures and surveys. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a bad thing! This is very affirming for a lot of people. But it feels like I need to pick something that doesn't quite fit. At pride, for instance, there's always pronoun buttons. But they're all she/her, he/him, they/them, she/they, he/they, it/it, xe/xir, etc etc. And that's great. I'm always glad that there are a lot of options for people. But there's never any pins for any/all pronouns. I've never picked up a free pronoun pin at pride, despite always looking, because they all feel like picking what pronouns I don't want poeple to use and the answer is that I don't care. I fround an any/all pronoun pin once at a queer museum and I cried.

Yeah, I mean it's clearly not random, especially since there are a few places where there's a recognizable date and time format.

But with it only using 7 different letters it'd probably be difficult or impossible to decode.

She noted that IDDXL is the same length as MARCH or APRIL. There were two other things that showed up in the month slot for dates, CIDIX and IMXMMM, the former also being 5 letters and the latter being 6, which would just line up with AUGUST. We both noticed that if the former 5-letter month is MARCH and the latter is APRIL, that would make I=A and D=P line up, with I=A also tracking for AUGUST. I also noticed that IMXMMM=AUGUST make S, T, and U all being M groups up rather neatly alphabetically, so I decided to note these assumptions down as:

This... lines up rather nicely. It also makes DC and IC (not pictured) showing up after times line up to PM and AM. I take it to its natural conclusion:

This leaves the last 5 letters of the alphabet as a bit of a mystery, but... as I'm looking at the screenshot up above again now... [MVIDIX] MVIDIX DMVDI looks like [SEARCH] SEARCH QUERY [MCLCCIC XCDMM MIDV] even looks like [UNKNOWN INPUT TAPE] So I'm thinking VWXYZ is all I as some sort of default. So starting to decode the rest of the screenshot...

JUMP TO MAIN CONTENT JUMP TO ? [HOME]RAFFLE{?} [PLACES] * FORUMS * WIKI [SEARCH] SEARCH QUERY[UNKNOWN INPUT TAPE] * LOG IN * SIGN UP * SUBMISSIONS * COMMENTS * FEATURED O FEATURED O ALL *

This is... a webpage? Why? What? How? How did someone seemingly accidentally copy/paste a whole webpage, convert all the text to a Roman numeral-based code, and then send it to a plane ID blog? I suppose the latter can be explained if they meant to just copy an image with a plane in it but... the code conversion. How. At this point I'm not putting a ton of effort into every word of the last block of text, but skipping to what I can get...

slightly higher quality zoom ins for you gamers.