Hard to detangle fake-uniqueness from real-uniqueness :: especially when the discussion turns to social appearances and how we want to describe ourselves. Youn

Hard to detangle fake-uniqueness from real-uniqueness :: especially when the discussion turns to social appearances and how we want to describe ourselves. Young friends calling themselves "weird" because they dress alternative. They lack the decades to see that emo/goth/alt identity is belonging to a group. Piercings and recreational drugs! Or wealthy kid doing an extreme sport. Tryharding to be unique is completely normal in many scenes. Many people seem to define their identity as being NOT something :: join the struggle against normality. As a boring straight guy, LGBTQIA+ sometimes appears to simply mean NOT heteronormal to me. The word alternative also contains that concept. (Reedited to tidy)