#I'm simultaneously proudly a weirdo and also deathly ashamed of myself

[morsobaby]

You being nonhuman doesn't make you worse than humans. Just like in real life, despite common misbelief, animals or other creatures are definitely not below or worse than humans

Some people's nonhuman identity may have developed from them feeling ostracized, othered, and isolated from the rest of society. Bullying, neurodivergence, race, queerness. The common experience is "If you don't fit this and this criteria, you're not even human, because all humans are this and this, obviously!"

That's the majority speaking. And it's not true. And I know many have always been nonhuman from the very start, which makes this all the more alienating. And this post is still for you who feel that. But personally I get the feeling that I've been forced out of humanity, like an egg thrown out the nest bc it didn't seem right, or good enough. I have a complicated relationship with humanity, bc especially for the first portion of my life I felt disgust and disconnect from the whole species. It eased up eventually but I still struggle with things

I wanted to make this, to just say, nonhumans, be it otherkin/hearted, copinglink, therian and so on, are not below anyone. Human is not the be all end all of intelligent and valuable existence. And you don't even need to be intelligent and skilled to be valuable. The world is not made for the sole benefit of humans. We have room here. Being in a human body/perceived as a human while you're something else, makes life difficult in our society bc a specific, rigid kind of "humanity" is automatically expected from everyone. It weighs us down

You're not worse, or below anyone. And many of the qualities people feel othered for, like gaps in cognitive or intellectual abilities, are perfectly okay to have. We're here to exist and make the best of life, not to fill a mold. You don't need to achieve human things to be good enough. You don't need to have human abilities to be good enough. I promise, we all have room here

#My thoughts #Otherkin #Therian #Otherhearted #Copinglink #actually neurodiverce #Actually angelic #Kin #Haha nervous but I make the posts I'd need in my life #I debated putting this on my secret nonhuman blog but just. #I feel like it needs to be more seen #I'm simultaneously proudly a weirdo and also deathly ashamed of myself #I'm also as of writing this having conflict over liking it/its pronouns for me bc they're controversial #Idk. Hope this helped #actually autistic