Many of these badges touch on very personal parts of who you are — your neurotype, health, trauma history, identity, or lived experiences. Adding badges is always optional. You are never required to share anything that doesn’t feel safe.
Because these are vulnerable details, it’s especially important to stay anonymous: keep using an alias, avoid sharing real names, workplaces, schools, or other identifying information, and be thoughtful about who you choose to connect with.
Marking badges is meant to be empowering: a way for us to name our own experiences, embrace our uniquenesses, and create our own narrative — rather than letting other people label us without consent.
You can choose no badges, a few, or many. Go at your own pace. You can always come back later to add, remove, or change them as you learn more about yourself.