Otherkin
Likewise, if you feel at home being human, that's entirely fine. I personally don't understand it from my perspective, and I try to distance myself from it, but I never want my ventings of disdain to parse as speaking of human folks who are genuinely really good and well and such.
A lot of my ventings come from a place of dysphoria and dislike of my own humanity, so There's That
Otherkin, self-understanding, frustrations (side note)
tangentially related, I am always frustrated with myself with this. I would never say that I 'dislike being a guy', because I'm NOT a guy and I know that truer than I ever thought I was a guy before I knew about being trans.
It's so, SO much harder to say that with regards to Being Human, and I'm not sure how to get to the point where I know it as well as I know my own gender.
Otherkin, self-understanding, frustrations (side note)
I've been frustrated lately because I don't actually think I believe I am what I say I am, and I'm not sure why I can't know this just as well as other things. There's such a disconnect that I keep continuously thinking of myself as human and then getting extremely dysphoric and depressed because I can't even be content with it from within myself
Otherkin, self-understanding, frustrations (side note)
@Oneironott Y'know... if it's not fact, it's still a useful metaphor. It still helps you cope. And fact or metaphor, people do change and occasionally need to rearrange whatever works for them. The "works for you/helps you cope" is the part that I think is most important.
Otherkin, self-understanding, frustrations (side note)
@Leucrotta it doesn’t really work for me though… i want to be able to say it and believe it. None of this stuff I’d be saying such… circumventing terminology about my gender, so why… this