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Let’s All Drop Labels by da-AL

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Video Still from Drop Labels dot org websiteFirst impressions. It’s hard to restrain myself from making snap judgments about people when I first meet them.

Worse is when I settle for my shallow analysis and end up labeling folks.

We’re all complex, all of us alike yet different from each other, so I doubt anyone appreciates my boxing them into a label. Moreover, embracing knee-jerk categorizing limits me from enjoying all the marvelous aspects of the people I meet as well as learning the really good stuff from them.

Alas, training myself to stop being an automaton seems impossible.

Not so! There’s hope, thanks to this consciousness-raising site founded by a wise new friend. Drop Labels features videos of people discussing how being labeled has hurt them. The site goes above and beyond threadbare definitions of types of labels. For instance, this man has found that he hates being labeled as ‘the man with cancer’ …

Do you label? Have you been labeled?

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Happiness Between Tails speaks to and from the heart. It connects lovers — of pets, authors, books — and of my still-unreleased novels, “Flamenco + the Sitting Cat” and “Tango + the Sitting Cat.” The stories are my love letters to all who fear they're too odd, too damaged, too old, too whatever to find happiness. ContactdaAL@gmail.com • BuyMeACoffee.com/SupportHBT

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  2. When i think of not wanting to be labeled by my cancer experience, the phrase i use is, ‘I don’t want to be defined by it.’ I hope it isn’t the most interesting thing about who i am.
    Not denying or suppressing the cancer aspect, though, has allowed me to connect with others (whether survivors themselves or not) i might not have otherwise, or connect in a unique way.

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    2. You make a good point – telling people can lead to great things as easily as not. When I first had cancer, I worried about being labeled it, about being watched like a ticking time bomb. The word ‘remission’ makes me feel especially that way.

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