I think the Alpha and Omega are being mixed up with dominant and submissive.
and how they apply to roles when it comes to non-binary gender.
We speak of having female and male sides to ourselves in general, she and he.
The question of whether we are applying dominant to he and submissive to she came up.
I question whether we do or not. I have two sides to my gender, she and he.
They are both me, they share everything because they are me, not two different people.
Depending of what is needed, what the situation is, they can both be one or the other in the way they use these things.
They can both be dominant if need be, or one will stand out more than the other.
They can be either role of Alpha or Omega, or dominant or submissive.
They are me, they share everything because they are me after all.
The definitions apply equally, are shared and used as such.
But they are still identified as she and he, which is just me.
I identify them that way because they seem to be, but it might just be because of the demands of society to have a binary world.
One picked up traits different from the other one at an early age?
I don't know, they could've started out that way, have just blended as I age.
It's interesting to me that they could be different for others, that the perspectives of genders have roles.
When I was young, I thought they did, because society demanded that they where.
Does society dictate what your identities are? That they have roles?
Or do they really have those traits and roles?
I used to think they did, but not so much anymore, if at all.
My awareness that I was non-binary was dependent on this.
It was when I realized that they didn't was when I lost that binary thinking.
But I don't know if that is just me or not. I leave it open because of what I read here...
The question was, do you really assign roles to your identity, to it's perspectives? To your identities, to your genders?
Now I wonder if any of you perceive non-binary as a shared identity or genders, without assigning roles.
Yet still retain the sense that they are different, that they do have an awareness of their own that you share with yourself.
I don't think there is any right way or wrong way in how we perceive our gender(s).
Although I do think it probably changes over time, just like so many things do as we go older.
It's an interesting discussion.
To me, it's awareness, then identity(s), then roles and what we apply to those roles, the how and why.
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