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Hello! I'm non-binary, and this is the explanation I tend to give people when they ask what it means:

(mind if I assume you're a woman?)

"OK, so you know how, when you were little, you knew you weren't a boy? Like, someone could've given you any number of reasons as to why you are (but you play sports! But you're loud! etc), but at the end of the day, you'd fall asleep knowing in your gut that you're not a boy? And that holds true now- there's nothing I can say to you that'll make you change the way you look at yourself when you fall asleep or look in the mirror; you'll know you aren't a guy.

"I'm the same way: I know I'm not a guy. I know it just as assuredly as the fact that that I'm not a girl. You know you're not one, and I'm just the same. I just also know I'm not the other."

If you're looking to better understand experiences, feel free to pm me. I'd also really recommend checking out the play The Naked I: Monologues from Beyond the Binary (or, if you live near Minneapolis, check out a performance!). It's a great book about all sorts of trans people who aren't just transitioning FtM or MtF.