My Resources:
- "What is Alterhumanity?"
- Alterhuman Resource Masterlist
- Kinrichment — Expressing Nonhumanity and Indulging in Kintype-like Behaviours
My Personal Alterhumanity:
My history in the therian community begins in 2015. I was introduced to the community after an internet friend in a wolf roleplaying group made an offhand comment about being a therian. I asked what they meant, and when they explained it, I thought it was amazing that there was a word and community for something I had experienced since I could remember. I've always been a nonhuman animal in mind and heart, instinctively reacted in line with an animal rather than a human, felt animalistic teeth, claws, and ears over my own body, always looked at animals as brothers rather than a different species to me. I cycled through many different theriotype species throughout my time in the community, my identity only settling on one true form recently as I've gotten older and developed a more stable sense of self. It was at this point I figured out I was a tiger.
Around 2017, I came to the conclusion that I was a psychological therianthrope, rather than spiritual. My best idea at the moment is it’s rooted in my experience growing up autistic and feeling closer to nonhuman animals than humans, and feeling as if I was raised by animals as one of their own.
In 2017-18 I delved into the fictionkin community and explored the possibility of having a fictotype. Before this point I identified as a range of things including demons, lizards, and dragons in an otherkind sense. After consideration and years-long research into different options I landed on Vergil from the Devil May Cry series. At the moment I currently believe in a mostly psychological explanation for it, but I'm still questioning this. I experience noemata but I do not particularly believe that I was reincarnated from him. I find it's more like a missplaced soul or a parallel life of sorts, if a physically lived life at all. Although my fictotype is half-human, I see and refer to my fictionkin experience as wholly nonhuman and aligned with draconic and demonic otherkin rather than with humanoid fictionkin.
Since early 2022 I have regarded Raiden from the Metal Gear series as a fictotype. I have a more spiritual experience with detailed noemata and a hearthome spawned from it. I still feel very close to him because of my current relationship with Rosemary, the woman I was married to as him. His cyborg body from later games gives me an experience similar to that of machinekin, so I find more solidarity with that community, although the nature of my identity as him remains fully human.