I Have a NAME

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.