did anyone else feel unhuman as a kid / why did i feel unhuman as a kid

traves 4/18/2023 12:56 pm 5496

title, (weird qeustion i know.)

like i alwyas th0ught i was adopte d because I was so different from every1 else. and, is there a reason why?

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Apr 18, 2023 1:19 pm

@traves: perhaps! There were other factors in our case but overall we don't identify as human currently either. Maybe we will someday, but not right now. Maybe I'll dual boot. (like where you have 2 operating systems on one computer-machine but w/ my species self identification)

Apr 18, 2023 2:00 pm

@traves: Voidpunk is a subculture with dehumanized groups that are normally desired as "the rejection of the human identity, and embracing being nonhuman"

I identify as Voidpunk because I feel like I have been rejected, others might have a different feeling, and it just makes me feel better, you could call it a comfort thingy, and I also identify because it gives me closer to who I am

It is almost exclusively for groups and individuals who face dehumanization by society as a whole, like people who are aroace, nonbinary, neurodivergent, and or disabled, and ofc many more!

People sometimes make voidsonas! pretty much to represent there experiences or personal ideas of being voidpunk!!

Apr 18, 2023 3:07 pm

for me it was bc i grew up having small signs of schizophrenia and i was AFAB and acted like a boy growing up (i used to not wear shirts when i was young at home, i had short hair for the longest time when i was younger, i was mistaken for a boy a lot of times, and my parents didn't force me into a "female norm" head space and they didn't necessarily care what i wore and/or how i acted) some of these things are why i am trans lol but not all the reasons

it's different for everyonethumbsup

Apr 18, 2023 3:16 pm

i was autsitic and thats why lol

Apr 18, 2023 3:25 pm

4 me i generally thought i was from a different world because of how weird i was, i had no one 2 talk 2 abt any of my special interest.crying

Apr 18, 2023 3:52 pm

Ohhhhhh yeah. For me I'm gonna say it was a combination of really early emotional trauma, undiagnosed near constant anxiety, complete inability to identify with that period's hardcore gender roles (I'm fine with my gender, just not the absolute societal nonsense assigned to it at the time), and possible neurodivergence. Actually I knew I was human, but not entirely sure about a lot of other people.

Also if people ask you what you want to be when you grow up and you say, "A lion," they think you're weird. I mean if you didn't want to know, why did you ask?

Roar.

Apr 18, 2023 4:07 pm

I dont know, and I still dont know I just have no one that I can really relate to yk? shrugcrying

Apr 18, 2023 4:16 pm

i used to say i was from china (i am mostly ehite) i thought everything came from china, so obvi that means me too (i am from canada)

Apr 20, 2023 12:51 pm

@shaneskitten: s0rt of related but i used 2 think there was multiple versions of me:??? like a chinese verson of me that was exactly like me just spoke chinese and shiz

Apr 20, 2023 2:04 pm

i always felt like a strange little creature as a kid, not really sure why but im guessing its because 1. autism 2. my older siblings left me out of stuff alot 3. homeschooled. i still feel like that tbh especially with me having to talk to more people i dont know super well this year.