that uncomfortable thing when you realize you have a better way to describe your true nature than you’ve been using, but someone else you know already uses that to describe *their* true nature but you don’t *think* it’s the same as theirs but there are a bunch of similarities so not only might other people get confused, you also get confused
(hi, I’m a prism dragon but not the same species as the other hermaphroditic shapeshifting prism dragon I know of, unless I am indeed that species)