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psyadam wrote
...what should I consider myself, an atheist, or an agnostic?
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A/theism concerns what you do or don't believe.
Agnosticism concerns what you can or cannot know.
For instance: one can be an agnostic theist, if one believes a given set of religious claims while acknowleding that one cannot know if they are objectively true. Or one can be an agnostic atheist, if one does not believe any sets of religious claims because one acknowledges that one cannot know if any of them are objectively true.
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psyadam wrote
The issue that keeps me from telling other people I'm "atheist" (whatever that means) is mostly because I really would like to believe there is an afterlife.
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Seems that would make you a wishful atheist, since wanting to believe necessitates that you don't believe. No harm in being wishful, so long as you don't allow yourself to believe that what you wish were true is actually true on the basis that you wish it were true.
The desire for something to be true, after all, is not evidence that something is true.