Many of us are obsessed with naming things, with labeling and catagorizing.
Socialized to believe in ultimate truth (which we are told is "knowable"), seeking perfection (which is relative - especially culturally) and then defining "normal" behavior out of these beliefs, we tag people and things and then don't budge much - concretizing our findings. For many of us, these concrete observations become just that: solid and fixed. Even with the folks we meet, some people form opinions of them ...
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