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For me, I spent thirty years in the closet waffling back and forth between "am I a boy or am I girl" before I finally decided that I must be a secret third thing
For me, "non-binary" is a pretty cool label because it's a non-label. And at the end of the day, I'm kind of about defying expectations so a non-label is perfect for me. It doesn't serve me to have my life experience put in some little box to make other people more comfortable
If labels are helpful to you, then sure, it's worth exploring. But labels can hold you back too. At the end of the day, a person is far more complex and interesting than any label they might have assigned to them
Although I do understand that it's not actually correct, "everyone is a little bisexual," does seem to line up with my experiences and biases. However, "everyone is a little non-binary" does not, so if you feel a little bit that way then congratulations! You're one of the special humans and that's worth celebrating