Being genderqueer means you don't identify as male or female, just, you know, a person. Despite the simplicity of that, it's not an easy life. You're constantly misgendered and forced to explain why you are the way you are. But if there's a silver lining to being genderqueer, it's being able to look at some of those things as strengths. Here are eight of the best.

1. When you're actually kind of psyched that someone can't immediately figure you out. "You look kind of like a boy, but you like girly things!" "You look super girly, but you act like a tomboy!"

"What are you?!" A beautiful mystery, sir. A beautiful mystery. Mwahaha.

2. When you see gendered products, you know all of them are for you. You see men's and women's packaged socks, and realize they are exactly the same thing and grab whichever's cheapest because you know the gender of your socks is irrelevant to you, and, let's be honest, to everyone. "Girl socks" are not a thing.

3. When someone asks you if you're a boy or a girl, you can just say no and you're not lying. Which gender am I? All of them. Bye. (*Rides off on amazing scooter powered by being badass.*)

4. No matter what gender your friend is, when they stay over, you basically have a dream closet full of gender-specific and non-gender-specific clothing. "What do you want? Boy shorts, boxers, thong, boxer briefs? For colors I have pink, red, gray, black, purple. For patterns, let's see here..."

5. You can be masculine presenting one day and feminine presenting the next day. Because you're not confined to being one way or another. You're like a cowboy to whom laws do not apply. Also, a cowgirl. Cowperson? Cowperson just sounds like someone who likes cows, but the point remains.

6. Sometimes people correctly gender you. It's rare, but sometimes on a day when you're more masculine presenting, you actually get a respectful "sir" and it makes up for all of the times you got a "This is a women's bathroom, sir" or were called "sir" while wearing a dress.

7. You know your gender doesn't define you. When someone refers to something as a "girl thing" or a "boy thing," you of all people know that's not true, because you operate on a spectrum. So for you most things are "whatever gender I'm identifying as this very second" things. You never have to worry if you're stepping out of bounds because you are limitless.

8. You meet another genderqueer person and it's like your birthday and Christmas and Halloween all in one. It's like meeting a long-lost twin who has similar memories and problems and feelings and understands you more than anyone else you know. You two will talk for approximately six hours and start to feel like your normal is the whole world's normal and feel so much less alone. It's a wonderful thing.

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Lane Moore Sex & Relationships Editor I'm Lane Moore, sex & relationships editor at Cosmopolitan.com.

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