just a quick question for you guys.....

I use the term witch to describe myself as it best describes what i perceive my gifts to be....... and yet through reading on the forum, i see that others might describe me as a Psi vamp, and empath or a sensitive....even though i can the same person ...

what term would you use to describe yourself and why? do you use it for shock factor or because its easier that explaining everything all the time?

Does it enhance understanding, if that is what you want, or does it cause people to back away, again is that the reason you use that classification in the first place?

look forward to the replies

Vicereine

I see myself as an Empath, as it is the strongest gift that I have and know of. I think that knowing I'm an empath enhances how I understand myself, but I don't tell anyone I see daily, so they don't mind how I classify myself. But when I talk to people I don't know as well, I feel I can tell them more for some strange reason. So when I talk to them, I describe me as an Empath, and that is just so i don't have to explain everytime, lol.

I think classifying yourself is more important to you as a person, because it helps you understand yourself more. I don't mind how other's classify me, for example my friends say I have MBS ( mushy brain syndrome)... :( . But I am curious to know how people classify me from how they see me...

I define myself as human. Simply said a being born in and of the orchestrated elements in existence. A collection of memories and thoughts reflected from other manifestations this vessil passes by in its short breath of being. Only a variable in a myriad of possibilities and impossibilities everything and anything is subject to. I define myself as you, as in every "you" I have encountered there have been similarities and occurences that parallel to others. While at the same time I define myself as nobody. Nothing I have constructed in my time here is in all truth mine, or "unique". It has all been written or said before. "I" am only a figment of my own imagination and perception. The more lifes experiences that happen, the more its become hard to resist the possibiity of being defined as something so undefined and misunderstood as a member of the human species.

And here I am also myself, which in itself is just a reflection of you and everyone else....

Funny how the mind works..

I am ME

that is how I describe myself. to many this may be cryptic but to those who know me. they know this as truth.

I describe myself as a normal guy,
I consider myself to be a psivamp

don't ask why the difference

Exactly so....

If you don't label yourself then you don't limit yourself...Others may label but they have imperfect views of the facets that make a person.

I choose labels like clothes if it feels comfortable I can wear it for as long as it is of purpose.

I like to just say that I am human and am very reluctant to take on such things. I have also taken on the label "psychic" because, well, it has pretty much been given to me by someone you could say and it fits very well and it is one of the things which I cannot really doubt in anyway anymore.

In general with labels, it does take unusual intervention before I even consider adapting them fully, and then it is rather reluctantly. It is just the way I am. Part of it is that I do not want to identify as something that I am not sure of. Another part is that often I dislike the stigma associated with certain things... where people try to say what this is or what that is.

As for people in general, I prefer to be percieved as normal wherever possible and I really do kind of long for what you would call a more "normal life". A problem with being different than others (in virtually any significant way) in and of itself is that, well you are different, and your problems often aren't the same. So it is like a seperate reality that you live different than other people. And the grass is always greener on the other side. Some times more than others.

In real life unless you were very close to me [and even then] or able to figure things out, you would have real problems detecting anything unusual about me except for superficial things and certain interests that are easily passed off as other things. I am very good at this. A lot of practice. Every once in a while I slip though.

I am many things...But I don't really like to label myself. I exist , or at least in my reality I do.
I have interests, abilities and ambitions. All of which I am here, now at this site, sharing what I know and learning from others.