How To Identify With Identity

Hello. I really enjoyed reading your post. While I can't fully identify with your experiences, on some level I feel I can somewhat understand your struggles with identity in a different manner. I war born in the United States, however, shortly after I was born my family moved to the Netherlands. I spent the first eight years of my life there, going to Dutch schools, speaking Dutch as my first language, and being accustomed to Dutch culture. Although, I was never truly accepted as a Dutch person by my peers because I was 'American'. That was my prescribed identity while I lived in the Netherlands.

At around age eight I moved to the United States and was quickly branded as a 'foreigner' due to my accent, my clothing, my mannerisms, ETC. I wasn't