This chapter examines people’s self-understanding as desplazados. Even though being labelled as a desplazado/a is a deeply negatively felt othering, a great number of the displaced persistently refer to themselves as desplazados more than a decade after physical relocation, confirming that the administrative category became an active social identity on the ground. The chapter examines why people recourse to the category. It looks at but also moves away from the usual focus on instrumental use of the category to explore its non-instrumental, symbolic uses. In its symbolic capacity, the self-categorisation is used as a response to ailments, as a sign of tainted self-worth, as a mechanism to make sense of one’s experience, a cry of sense of non-belonging, but also as a proof of one’s political, and religious convictions. The deeply individualised self-understanding confirms just how heterogeneous the displaced are. The chapter also shows that the symbolism behind self-categorisation and self-understanding alludes to the category’s long-lasting use.