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Have you considered agreeing to disagree?

I know this sounds like absurd advice when we're saying, "have you tried disagreeing on whether you're going to call yourselves plural?". I think a lot of folks would read that as "you should disagree about whether you exist!" That's not the intent.

You really, really can't force most people to see themselves as plural even if you personally think it's obvious. Often, this still applies to your own brainmates. The harder you push the framework, the harder they'll resist. The more that you insist on agreement, the more likely that someone is to double down (especially if they're afraid of any ramifications of other opinions being more practical or honest).

On top of that, folks do have the right to choose their own language for their experiences, and it can feel really frustrating when someone else pushes their framework or language on you when you don't want them. Frustrating each other over language isn't going to help you decide what to do with your experiences in a practical, daily life sense.

Sometimes getting agreement really, truly matters. We reach for tools like Consensus Decision Making to figure those conflicts out. Sometimes it doesn't actually matter as much as it seems to matter initially. There are a lot of very important-seeming things that turn out to have very little impact on your actual life, and figuring out which important things will actually affect you later is a useful skill to develop.

Personally, I think that trying to push for total agreement here is more likely to cause pressure and upset than it is to get The One True Answer. There is no One True Answer; plurality is subjective. So are labels. There's no objective test to tell you whether you're XYZ community term. There may not even be a right answer.

You've already said that you all agree that whatever is happening, it's happening a certain way. You are having an experience. You agree on that, and I'd argue that's more important than agreeing on what to call that experience. Everything else starts from deciding that something is happening.

There's no inherent reason that you all have to call yourselves the same thing or see yourselves the same way to try working with your actual experiences.

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