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Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I can't give up my own identity.

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.