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I'm not referring to religion specifically, though I do think that it can have a role in the issue. Religion often promotes the idea of Dichotomy, and the concept is believed so wholeheartedly at least in the culture that exists around me that people take the philosophy for granted as an unspoken (and often not directly thought of) gospel truth. As I said earlier, society and people around me keep insisting and attempting to pressure me with the dichotomy mentality: "You're either this or that. Occasionally you can be a bit of both, or somewhat inbetween, but never neither, never something else entirely. You have to fit on this line. There are no other options."

To put it in a nutshell, I tend to not be able to fit into dichotomies, and people strongly expect me to fit in them, which causes me social and emotional problems. It seems to me that most people as they try to get to know me attempt to fit me into these rigid black and white categories, and because of that I end up being misunderstood and alienated. I'll give some examples.

My concept of morality isn't so much good vs evil as it is a bunch of values and priorities organizing and interacting with each other, but that doesn't ...

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