fellow therians/otherkin/alterhumans?

[halcybutton]

alterhumanity is an umbrella term that includes therians, other/fictionkin, soulbonds, copinglinks, otherlinks, and more. you can read about all the different types here. i'll be using alterhuman as an umbrella term here, but note that not everyone who could be considered alterhuman identifies with the term. i am using it here for easier reading.

i'm therian and otherkin/fictionkin myself, and wanted to see if there were any others on the forum? feel free to talk about how you identify, what you identify with/as, what alterhumanity means to you, anything related really! ^_^

i myself have been identifying as kin for at least a decade now, i honestly expected it to diminish with time and it never did. honestly i think it grew stronger lol i have also been therian since i was a young child, although i didn't know the term for it till i got invested in certain online communities. my theriotypes are a big eye thresher shark and a flame point siamese cat. my biggest kin is a non-specific geth (mass effect). i have many other kintypes but they fluctuate and change as i change. the three i listed have been very solid for years though. i've always been pretty open with being kin, i know a lot of people act like it's cringe but as i have aged i have stopped caring about what people consider cringe.

i take my alterhumanity pretty seriously. it's a pretty substantial part of my identity, and it brings me comfort. not everyone takes it seriously though, and that's okay! i've known plenty of people that did it for fun more than anything else, and there isn't anything wrong with that. i think it's really neat how individual experiences can be so different from each other

[candycanearter07]

i take my alterhumanity pretty seriously. it's a pretty substantial part of my identity, and it brings me comfort. not everyone takes it seriously though, and that's okay! i've known plenty of people that did it for fun more than anything else, and there isn't anything wrong with that. i think it's really neat how individual experiences can be so different from each other

while i am pretty light with the whole "personally identifying with it" thing, i VERY strongly identify with slimes and similar blobby creatures (and bugs), and the main original character i identify with in my online accounts and also comic is based off a slime enemy from another game i also adore

[TheMessengerVEVO]

as the sentient envelope guy of this forum, hiiii!!!! alterhumans and stuff are awesome, gotta be my favorite gender

[Memory]

I feel like I may be alterhuman? I have always struggled with fitting in and seeing myself as a human. I feel like I'm just always pretending to be one and that I don't belong. I have always found comfort in robot characters and I feel close to them. They've always made sense to me and I found them to be extremely relatable.

[Bede]

I'm alterhuman; more specifically bunnykin, fallen angelkin, and mediakin of multiple varieties. My alterhumanity is very important to me, and it helps me reconcile/understand my fractured sense of self that I have thanks to my BPD. I've been active in the alterhuman community for over 5 years now! I have a whole section on my site dedicated to the subject, and education on the matter!

[halcybutton]

while i am pretty light with the whole "personally identifying with it" thing, i VERY strongly identify with slimes and similar blobby creatures (and bugs), and the main original character i identify with in my online accounts and also comic is based off a slime enemy from another game i also adore

slimes are such fun guys, 10/10 creatures

as the sentient envelope guy of this forum, hiiii!!!! alterhumans and stuff are awesome, gotta be my favorite gender

sentient envelope.. i love that :3

I feel like I may be alterhuman? I have always struggled with fitting in and seeing myself as a human. I feel like I'm just always pretending to be one and that I don't belong. I have always found comfort in robot characters and I feel close to them. They've always made sense to me and I found them to be extremely relatable.

it definitely couldn't hurt to look into stuff like robotkin to see if something resonates! similar feelings in myself is part of why i kin an alien robot race 

I'm alterhuman; more specifically bunnykin, fallen angelkin, and mediakin of multiple varieties. My alterhumanity is very important to me, and it helps me reconcile/understand my fractured sense of self that I have thanks to my BPD. I've been active in the alterhuman community for over 5 years now! I have a whole section on my site dedicated to the subject, and education on the matter!

my alterhumanity helps me a lot with my fractured self too (BPD and DID double whammy ^^;).. so cool to meet another long term alterhuman community member!!! your otherkin section is super cool too, incredibly informative and really well done. i am also a mix of psychological and spiritual approaches when it comes to my alterhumanity as well :3

[Memory]

i think i'm an alterhuman!

only just found out today lmao
basically, i'm a hybrid of a human and a fox? similar to kemonomimi i guess.

i think? lol

to me it basically means that i'm not like, exactly 'human'-human, i'm still partly humanish sure, but i don't feel like a proper Homo SapienTM
i feel more like a foxgirl, basially a girl with fox ears and a fox tail. to me it feels like it's on a weirdly deep level.
i dunno how to describe it really other than that.

though i'm still looking for labels that fit me the best cuz of what i am? :P

some images to help describe i guess.
my VRoid model and pixel art i think.
aaaa now i don't even know if i am one?? well i think maybe??

[Nova]

I would... describe myself as a therian?

I've always seen myself as some kind of shapeshifting creechure, but the default "base" has ALWAYS been some kind of cat.

Ain't gonna lie cats have always resonated with me when I was younger to the point that I sometimes swear I have an invisible cat tail.

Also related but did anybody ever try to walk on their tiptoes as a kid to pretend to be like the creechure they saw themselves as?

[shapezncolourz]

i think id describe myself as otherkin! also as voidpunk, but i know that those are two separate communities

my main kins are robots/retro-vintage computers/crt tvs/other tech, snow leopards and highland cows :3 though ive also identified very strongly with teddies and ghosts in the past!

i really need to engage with the community more often, its always been something ive been a little embarrassed about but i need to grow past that :{

[Paprika]

It's my case too !

Usually I call it "dollgender" because the two dolls I own were fictional characters that I made when I was young and now that I have them physically, the whole website is built around them. They each have their own personality and traits.

It's a way for me to cope and/r break from IRL stuff. It's often heavy and investing myself in the website and the Dolls IRL is a great therapy, I really made huge steps for my mental health but it was difficult to assume it at the beginning. Now I'm much more confident about it and embracing it was really a leap forward.

[tesseractcube]

we are obnoxiously nonhuman, fiction and plural. at least online  one irl friend does know about it though, so does our therapist.

we've only been 'in' the alterhuman community for a few years, but we've never really fit in to the human way of living...
being neurodivergent people but, yeah, anyway, all of us are fictives of some variety, and then we all have otherkin stuff going on on top of that  like, i'm an octarian from splatoon but also a big dragon  isn't identity so much fun?

a big part of our website is about being unabashedly alterhuman, i hope we've exposed more people to the concept of it  it's probably hard to understand for most people, and that's fine, we just like being us anyway 

i can't imagine not being alterhuman!

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[Furbisms]

Oh hi awesome I don't know how I didn't notice this thread before!! I'm mainly dragonkin and some other small things but like. My primary identity is dragonkin/draconic.

My vtuber avatar actually has features from my kintype although I don't really talk about that much/mix the two parts of myself. At some point I wanted to make all of my vtuber branding based on my draconity but I ended up nixing that because it just felt weird (And no one can pronounce/read my name as a dragon so it worked extremely poorly for branding hahaha) So basically my avatar's design is somewhat based on my dragonkin self but that's like, it.

I used to be way more active in alterhuman spaces but for various reasons I just sort of fell out of it. Sometimes I get the urge to join a forum or something again but I just don't. I'm a member of like... one or two small discord servers and that's it. I always like to poke my head into threads like this though 

[AY38910]

Me and some friends while we have tech-related usernames and often "roleplay" as the things in our usernames, we do it purely as a joke, we don't actually identify with them beyond "it's my handle". But other of my friends actually identify with them.