Growing Up Alterhuman Is Isolating, Even When You Have Friends Who Pretend To Be Animals With You. Because

Growing up alterhuman is isolating, even when you have friends who pretend to be animals with you. Because that's all it is to them: pretending.

I'm someone who has felt some level of nonhuman for a huge chunk of their life; much like other kids, I would 'pretend' to be an animal or mythical creature. However, there was always an underlying sense of reality when I would 'pretend' to be a wolf, a leopard, a tiger, a mermaid, or even an ordinary housecat. As I grew, the feeling lingered, and at around 12 or 13 I discovered the otherkin community through cringe compilations.

I immediately felt a kinship to the community and couldn't understand what was so cringe about them. I found myself looking into the community, and I 'came out' as a vampire at 13. It was treated simultaneously as just a phase and something worrying. I started wearing tails at 14 everywhere I went, as I had developed two wolf forms. I stopped doing anything like this around the time when quarantine started.

I am now an adult, 19 years of age, and still nonhuman. I came into understanding of my polymorph identity at 17, and have stuck with it while gathering forms that I also consider to be kintypes; I consider myself to be canine therian despite not identifying as a dog all the time, for example. I still identify as a vampire. It is still isolating.

It is isolating because I know there are people who will see me and say, 'aren't you too old to play pretend like that?' as if I chose to have a lingering sense of nonhumanity from childhood. As if I chose this unshakable disconnect from humanity. As if I am playing pretend. I wish it were that simple, a game of play pretend. But no, this is a part of my identity, and I feel so othered sometimes because ""normal"" adults don't do this. I am a freak adult just as I was a freak child. But I also feel at peace, because I have this part of me and I have community. I know there are adults out there like me. 'Normalcy' isn't some superior state of being and being a 'freak' ain't all that bad.

So yeah, I guess where I'm trying to go with this is that otherkin adults aren't immature for their identities. We deserve to be taken as seriously as the adults who identify as human. We deserve to exist without ridicule, much like otherkin kids deserve the same.

ultra autism shadow hedgehog and wolf theme is being achieved boys and etc

I fought with someone on this in the comments, but have since deleted the convo because of their willful ignorance and racism, as well as the fact that I was talking to a brick wall and the conversation was going nowhere due to rigid stances on both sides. For the record, though: if your first thought upon seeing somebody stand behind the concept of transandrophobia is to go "but CIS MEN! MALE PRIVILEGE!" you are a problem. Male privilege looks different based on race and other factors, which is what I tried to bring up in my now deleted rebuttals, and doesn't cancel out the fact that things like misandry and transandrophobia do in fact exist.

Black men are targeted by police because people expect men to be more aggressive. That is a sexist stereotype. Black men are seen as more aggressive, and therefore more dangerous. That is a racist stereotype. Black men don't really have a lot of male privilege because being black and a man is where a lot of their privilege stops. This does not cancel out the racism all black people face, nor does it mean black men are overall more oppressed than black women; it is merely another example of when not to fucking bring up male privilege in a conversation. That was the point I was trying to make, not that it matters because I have since blocked the asshole.

People claim to care so much about black people as well as trans men, but when someone has the audacity to go 'oh I face sexist oppression as a man' they LOSE THEIR MINDS. Then it's all male privilege and how women have it worse. Let's make one more thing clear in case I haven't already: don’t bring up male privilege to black trans men, because it means nothing to trans men and mascs of color. Your idea of male privilege simply doesn't apply to us as much as you think. And you know what? I dare say white trans men don't have much male privilege either! Especially if they don't pass. You can't just go 'oh but male privilege!' when a trans man dares have a word to describe his oppression. Knock it off.

saw someone claim that 'transandrophobia truthers' are 'so white' so as a black person: transandrophobia exists and is very harmful, regardless of how much you close your eyes and plug your ears. Hope this helped!

"if i die of their transphobia forget a funeral drop my body in front of the national assembly"

seen at the official marseille pride parade on 6/7/24

it's funny because more often than not, said minor goes out of their way to instigate the argument, only to pull the 'erm I'm actually neurodivergent and a minor' card. Easy way to shrug off any responsibility for their actions.

"im a minor ur arguing with a minor"

ur still wrong

im actually arguing with an idiot

LMFAO

ID: an image from warframe, zoomed in to the text box that says 'defend the system' in white. End ID

When your plural friend is being dogpiled online so you gotta try to stick up for them.