Hello nonhuman/otherkin/therian/alterhuman/other-term friends!
I care about you a lot! i want to help you feel as good as you can about this life, and help reduce species dysphoria where i can. I see you, and i know how painful it can be.
Someone inquired about different ways yo help aleviate Species Dysphoria, so i threw some on a pastebin for reference.
identity things, alterhumanity
I realize that I've always kept the alterhuman communities at some sort of arm's length away from the truly personal stuff. The things I'm loud n proud about rarely touch the deeper parts of myself, and the more they do, the more anxious I feel about it.
I feel like there's a very specific and shallow image of myself that I've projected to these communities for a long time, and breaking with that in being honestly personal is difficult for me.
identity things, alterhumanity
The more I open up and talk about the parts of my identity I'm still working out, or even just...open up about the personal side of my identities in general, the more vulnerable I feel. The more I want to take it all back, apologize, "sorry, this was silly, I'll just go hide these things again."
I worry how I sound to others, what others are thinking about me when I tell them the things I keep close to my chest in words I worry don't convey well what I feel.
i might actually try disabling notifs on my toots now :o because Ive definitely not posted things and generally gotten anxious about how other people perceive me here n think of me and what i post, as well as just. feeling like I gotta produce Content instead of just being able to write whatever
which I funnily enough never had a problem with on Birdsite but that's probably bc Birdsite doesn't have such a small community feel. everything felt a lot more anon there.
dreams, half-woo
can't tell whether the dream I just had was 'bad's or not. people kept getting... idk that they were killed? just stopped being there in a way that made us sad,
but I got warm fuzzies and felt really connected to whoever was there with me and I'm sad I don't know his name and I hope he's okay without me now because I don't suspect I'll fall back asleep to the same dream. :(
nightmares; unreality
wow i just woke up from an awful, horrific string of really gorey, fucked up nightmares and im still not 100% on feeling like i've woken up yet because it was like a horror anthology connected by the same relentless evil so how can i even trust 100% if im awake if everything was episodic and the end of one thing was the beginning of a new one?? like, being aware of it doesn't help me for some reason
can someone reassure me Im awake? im really scared, still
STD stigma/serophobia; frustrations with the ace communities
obligatory disclaimer:
there's such toxic polarized discourse about all this so i'll make it clear ive got problems with the communities and behaviors i see, not ace people as a whole.
i just really need to talk about how frustrated i am sometimes because the ace communities completely failed me when I tried being part of them.
hrt injection talk
I've had this dang T pellet in my belly since I injected last week bc I just didn't wiggle it around enough and now Im trying to massage it out but when I do its so itchyyyyyyy
(for anyone who doesnt know, you gotta rub T in once it's injected or it kinda clumps together in one spot and makes a little pellet and its not harmful really but its weird and uncomfy)
The Flock⛦23⛦pronouns vary⛦dnfi under 18
a mess of blackbirds in a trenchcoat all trying to be the same person and variably succeeding.