Identity Check

An Identity Check is the first thing two people do when they see one another, even if they never speak to one another, is evaluate who the other person is and how powerful that person is. The second thing every person who interacts with another person in any way does is impose an identity on the other person, and they do that by telling the other person who they think that person is by the way they treat them.

When the identity another person indirectly, subtly, but firmly imposes on another person matches the identity that person has of themselves, or is close to the one they are working to attain, the person will continue interacting with the person who is imposing that desired identity on them. When the identity being imposed is different than the one that person has of themselves or is working to attain, that person will stop interacting with the person or the people who attempt to impose an identity the person does not agree with or like.

Sharon and Jane silently conducted an Identity Check on one another. As soon as they were introduced to one another by Bob McDonald, they continued evaluating one another and soon started to impose an identity on one another. Jane agreed with the identity Sharon was imposing on her, but Sharon did not like the identity Jane was imposing on her and walked away.

by but for January 22, 2020

Identity Dysphoria

An umbrella term for dysphoria caused by identity incongruence including gender dysphoria, species dysphoria (referring to what is experienced by Therians and Otherkin), and age dysphoria. Contrary to popular belief, identity dysphoria is not exclusive to people with identities that differ from what they were born as or physically are. In theory, anyone can have identity dysphoria if they experience identity incongruence. For instance, if a cis man has gynomastia, he may experience gender dysphoria. However, this is much more rare and the majority of people who experience gender dysphoria are transgender, intersex, and/or double-binary.

My body does not reflect my identity and it causes me identity dysphoria.

by Shugunou April 3, 2023

Instagram Identity Crisis (I.I.C)

When you don't post on Instagram for long periods of time or constantly post and delete pictures because they don't go with your feed. Or you don't know what your next Instagram theme is gonna be.

Jack: I went with a black and white theme for insta because I'm going through an Instagram Identity Crisis (I.I.C) and can't think of a new aesthetic

by thatsochocolate January 21, 2016

jenner-identity disorder

Formerly termed gender-identity disorder before the Bruce-to-Caitlyn transition.

This man has jenner-identity disorder; he feels like a woman trapped in a man's body.

by Wizard-of-Odds March 2, 2016

jenner identity disorder

Preferred to the hyphenated jenner-identity disorder for completed cases of male-to-female transition; the extraneous piece of punctuation should be correspondingly "cut" .

Bruce had jenner-identity disorder; Caitlyn has jenner identity disorder.

by Wizard-of-Odds March 2, 2016

MisSTINKen Identity

When you enter a public bathroom and only go #1, but you still get blamed for the stink left by the person ahead of you.

person gives you a dirty look as you leave the restroom
"Hey man, it wasn't me! I just peed! This is a case of misSTINKen Identity!"

by DavieYo October 23, 2017

product-induced isolation and identity

The comical marketing and social control strategy where corporations pay the media to make everyone consider themselves so superior they will feel disgusted of most other people and stop interacting with them and satisfy their innate need to interact with others by overconsuming products, and simultaneously feel so inferior they will buy products to raise their self-esteem and improve their identity. Thus, selling consumers products which satisfy their emotional needs have become as profitable as those which satisfy their physical needs.

He had read every book on his wall-to-wall bookshelf and was exceptionally intelligent, but like perhaps many Americans, Product-Induced Isolation and Identity got him to only interact with his family members, have only one or no friends, rarely interact with other human beings, and satisfy his innate need to interact with others by purchasing products—such as his automobile, from which he came to derived his self-esteem and identity, or his computer and mobile device which essentially replace in-person human interaction. To top it all of, he just got his master's degree online in Mass Humbuggery and Manipulation.

by but for August 9, 2018