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    It’s irrelevant if other people want to label me like that

    Correct. You get to label yourself and no person on Earth has a right to comment on that. You’re choosing not to and it’s unclear why or to what end.

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      …it’s unclear why or to what end.

      The abbreviation in question has negative cannotations in my mind and thus I don’t want to be accociated with it. I prefer the term sexual minority if I absolutely need to be put into a category.

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        has negative cannotations in my mind

        I feel like you may have just demonstrated the importance of the study being reported here. The people responding affirmatively do not carry that burden.

        As a piece of advice: this is a “you” thing. Whatever you need to do to get there, learn to be ok with yourself and stop worrying about what others think of you.

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          My point is that people answer these kind of questionaires differently. Just like I may not check a box others might think I should have, some other person checks a box others might think they shouldn’t have. Just because one thinks of themselves as native american for example doesn’t mean others do. That nearly 30% LGBTQ rate indicates, to me atleast, that something like this is going on here aswell.

          I don’t consider myself to be especially worried about what other people think of me. I don’t know what makes you feel like I do.