Why Anteatype
Nov. 17th, 2024 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nimdreamsOn why I wanted to coin "anteatype".
I wanted a label for the experience of having had a 'type that you identified as for a long time, or that impacted your identity greatly, but you no longer identify as. The main reason for this is because I identified as an elf from around age 9 to around age 20 and when I joined the community at age 29, I tried to reconnect with my elf side, but I couldn't. It is there, in some capacity, but really as something that shaped me greatly rather than something I still am fully.
I keep questioning elf and try it out all the time. But it just isn't the same. I wanted to have a label for this, to make clear how important elf still is for me without labeling it as a kintype anymore.
I wanted a label for the experience of having had a 'type that you identified as for a long time, or that impacted your identity greatly, but you no longer identify as. The main reason for this is because I identified as an elf from around age 9 to around age 20 and when I joined the community at age 29, I tried to reconnect with my elf side, but I couldn't. It is there, in some capacity, but really as something that shaped me greatly rather than something I still am fully.
I keep questioning elf and try it out all the time. But it just isn't the same. I wanted to have a label for this, to make clear how important elf still is for me without labeling it as a kintype anymore.
