I
Have a NAME...
I
am not a Number
I
am not an AGE
I
am not a Date Of Birth
I
am not an Income Level
I
am not a Bank Statement
I
am not a Social Security Number
I
am not my Driver's License
or
State ID Number
I
Have a Name.
Referring
to me by my gender, my age, my income (or the
lack
thereof), my bank statement, my Social Security number
and
so forth serves no useful purpose other than to display
a
person's personal details, which is Very de-valuing,
very
de-humanizing. But at once both very impersonal,
and
deeply personal....
My
Gender, My age, my Date of Birth, My Social
Security
Number.... all of it is very private and no one's
business.
Yet, continually put on full and open public
display
that is silver plattered (up) for Identity Theft.
I
Have a Name.
Being
reduced to nothing more than a series of numbers,
my
numbers; a gender; age, date of birth, Residence,
Income
Level, Bank Statement... When none of it is relative.
Yet,
my entire life history stripped away number by number.
Your
privacy and private details of your life...having your age,
date
of birth, Social Security Number and all your other
numbers,
billboarded for anyone and everyone, your
life
fully open on display in variations of our numbers.
I
have absolutely zero tolerance for constantly being
reduced
to a series of numbers; my numbers,
and
a gender. I am not a number.
I
Have a NAME
Still,
my entire life history is stored within them all. While being
referred
to as a number or sets of numbers is not who I am and
serves
no other purpose than to de-humanize the person
behind
the numbers, while giving all your personal
information
to the world...
But
all these places, especially in regards to the Government,
immediately reduces you to your
numbers, forcing you to give
every
single digit to them at every turn, then not acknowledging you
as
a living, breathing, human
being. The first thing that is always
asked of you/always
“Required” of you; What is your AGE?/What is
Your Date of Birth?/When were
you born?/How OLD are you?....
No matter which way they choose,
that is always the first thing
they insist on knowing... your
AGE. WHY? Why is your AGE so
important for them to KNOW?
Serving no purpose than to add
to their chart because the forms
state AGE/DOB/Birthdate
But if you ask theirs, they
refuse to respond, telling
you “it is none of our
business, we need to
know your numbers, not
ours”.
That makes it easier to dismiss
you when you are
nothing more than a number, or a
series/set of numbers.
Having to give your vital
details while being
dismissed as a living person.
Then on top of all the numbers
you are referred to, they
demand all your information,
stripped bare and put up
for sale; your Mother's Maiden
name, your father's full name,
where you were born, the
City/Town/State and date it
occurred and when, the time it
happened, where you
grew up, what school(s) you went
to, the street(s) you
lived on, who you know, how you
know them, what your
relation to them are, what
grades you received,
places you have been, what you
eat, where you shop.
I Have a Name. I Have Presence.
My Identity....I am a Sentient
Being.
I am not an IT, I am NOT a
NUMBER.
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