(I Don’t Know If This Is Just Me Or If Other Neurodivergent People Experience This But) Growing Up

shoutout to nonhumans whos identities arent realistic, i love you unnatural colors and hybrids.

people don’t talk about vocal stimming enough, in my opinion. haha like vocal stimming is the best. i always have to do it alone cause it usually annoys my family, but still i just love to just go and “aaaaaaaaAAAAaaAaAaaAaa” it’s somehow so refreshing

Yo creatures out there, just told my therapist about my nonhumanity and she was super supportive and understanding!! I never thought I would tell her, but it went way better than I could have expected :D

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me: i want like a mentally stable friend. a friend who i can just rant to, like tell them everything im feeling and it won’t trigger or even really upset them. they could just listen and make affirmative noises, and then id just leave and that would be our whole relationship. ugh, i wish that were actually a real thing.

me: ohhhhhhhh, therapy. therapist. i want a therapist.

Δ⚓︎ Anchor Delta ⚓︎Δ

• symbol for physical nonhumanity regardless of preffered label.

( combined image version; soft and sharp edges)

The delta symbolises difference, and to quote; the anchor symbolises and is: ""an anchor"(a nonhuman/supernatural) "is a heavy object attached to a vessel"(who is attached to physical inhumanity) "by a cable, rope, or chain" (by endelity, holothery, pshifting, or more)."

The idea for the symbol itself was created by @/einaobject and @/harloqui, with me just combining the character versions into one.

Totally get this, I constantly shift into species dwelling in tropical regions like why??? There are snakes in my area that I could be, and then I wouldn’t feel so out of place in my environment.

It's one of the "why can't i be a snowshoe, brown, arctic or mountain hare why do i have to be a physical jackrabbit? Why of all things must i be the lagomorph that feels so alien in my own birthplace's climate and environment" days.

Get me out of here it feels like biological species edging with being so close to those hares and yet so far. Worse yet i have not been able to physiclaly morph into another lagomorph so far at least, making the whole ordeal worse

I can only think of a few right now but for me it’s:

-meditation definitely

-basking

-hiking/being outside in general

-seeing other reptiles in the wild

-warm days (especially in spring)

im bored so, whats something you do/see/hear/smell that triggers a shift? ill go first :)

for me its

-eating really juicy fruits

-quadrobics (pretty rare for me to shift when doing this though)

-forest noises/wolf howls!

-meditation (still getting the hang of this one)

-and also certain smells like rain :)

Okay this but also when humans start demonizing and killing others of my kind, yeah I get pretty fucking pissed. Just let native animals live their lives! Quit messing things up with your own willful ignorance!

I can't even get mad at humans saying absolutely fucking braindead things under videos of mustelids (and animals in general) because at this point I'm amazed at their stupidly.

How do some humans go day to day being so incredibly dumb and clueless about literally any other species around them? Humans really don't deserve to be called the most "intelligent" animal lmao.

the cool thing about working with animals is that I have one singular neurotypical colleague (as far as I know). and it’s become super obvious to me that the way autistic people relate to animals is fundamentally different to how allistics relate to animals. and the way people with ADHD relate to animals is fundamentally different to those without. 

(only one of my colleagues has Tourette’s and only two of us have OCD, so I don’t think that’s enough to make any grand sweeping statements). 

anyway. a real interaction between two of my colleagues today.

ADHD: Maggie won’t stop barking at me. I think she’s upset.

autistic: let me go talk to her. I can fix this. 

and that’s not uncommon? my autistic colleagues and I seem to talk to the animals to a much greater extent than anyone else. my ADHD colleagues and I seem to be the best at associating the correct name and breed and dietary requirements to the correct dog, which is weird, because I can’t do the same when it comes to humans.

I know that most people communicate with their animals but… it’s different in a way I can’t quite explain. the communication and connection seems so much deeper… I don’t know, it’s just wonderful. also, the fact that so many ND people work with me… that alone… indicates something. 

Oh the horrors! (Having to act human)