My sexual orientation.

[The BDI]

And yet, rather ironically  I am perhaps one of the few keyboard warriors here who has a position of declared non interest in an individuals sexuality. 
My only gripe is that many expect that I must recognise them upon their disclosure of it.

Which is exactly what I mean by wishing everyone had the confidence that comes from acceptance of themselves. Of being ordinary. Individual among a group of accepting individuals.  But it is a confidence built on age and experience, as well as social nurture.

Maybe recognising is part of the process of accepting. After all, other people don't want to make us become clones of them. They don't want to make being Other compulsory. They just want to be accepted, otherness included. Part of that, though, for me is accepting themselves as they are, and not wanting to be imitations of binary folk.

But that might be my terfness speaking... 

Not necessarily... perhaps I simply reject the "look at moi look at moi"  sentiment of some.