Adult - Plants-liking queer menace - Front-desk worker of a plural system - Unapologetic low-effort poster
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(fallen london stamps by @vagorsol)
we are um. well, not sure yet but we seem to have some kind of plural-adjacent brainweirdness? maybe? and yeah we really don't feel welcome in online plural spaces for these reasons - we've been reluctant to even explicitly claim ourself as plural here on cohost for fear of inviting The Discourse if such a thing is present :(
happy to see someone else has similar struggles at least.
As far as I'm concerned, plurality is defined by function - if identifying as more-than-one makes your life make more sense than identifying as a singlet, then you're plural. That's it!
But yeah, a lot of plural spaces - even the inclusive ones - can make it seem like.... you have to subscribe to a lot of specific ideas and have certain kinds of experiences in order to be plural? Even if that's not the intent, it can come off that way just because those topics dominate discussion so much. You are absolutely not alone, though.