r/alterhuman

I was wondering, can I be otherhearted as a wizard? as in like, medieval fantasy type wizards with the pointy hats who live in towers and stuff. I don’t practice magic as I am somewhat religious but I feel strongly connected to wizards and the concept of being a wizard and I feel happy when someone calls me a wizard. I was just wondering since otherhearted is defined as identifying with a nonhuman entity, and wizards are technically human.

I don't know what to do. Heavily questioning

For background information, in 7th grade I identified as a therian, then sometime in 8th grade I had some mental health issues and dropped the therian identity, but now almost two years later I've been discovering my identity more and now I'm questioning if I really am a therian after all.

I still experience what I only can name as phantom shifts, I feel this weight-like tingling in places, such as my shoulders and spine where fur would be, on my head where my ears would be, a canine snout around my nose/mouth, and my tailbone, where my tail would be,and my teeth which feel like they should be shaped more ..sharp I guess? and just a few days ago I kept having what might've been a mental shift? I'm not sure, I had must stronger urges to do quads (which I already do), but I also wanted to move my stuff on my bed around to make a comfortable nest, similar to what my dog does, and to bite and shake my pillow

Not to mention when I get my (phantom shifts?) I get very unsettled by the fact that I feel these things, they should be there, and it makes me upset when they aren't,but then when I put on my canine mask (mask maker) and/or tail a friend gave me, it feels more me in a sense and it relieves some of that unsettled feeling.

I'm not sure if this is all in my head or if I'm a therian or some other alterhuman label, but I figured this might be a good place to start figuring that out.

Last night I felt deeply uncomfortable with myself. Quadrobics and wearing my mask and feeling the canine snout, which usually helps, only helped a little, I couldn't bring myself to do anything that involved looking at my very human hands, I felt like I was going crazy, the tingling feeling I mentioned above was way more intense than usual, and the entire experience just caused me a lot of anxiety overall

Like the title says I absolutely hate being refaired to as a human. Even when someone is comforting me and say that feeling this way is human. I know they mean it in a good way but it still feels wrong

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but the answer I'm looking for is outside my wheelhouse of psychology and dream interpretation.

Since I was a child, I've occasionally had vivid dreams where I'm in the canopy of a forest, usually at night, and I'm flying by jumping tree to tree.

I never felt particularly like an animal during it, although the word primal fits.

Has anyone here had similar dreams? What do you make of them?

I am 20 and I have vcation rn. I feel like there is nothing interesting to do, help

I'm not exactly sure what they are. I mean like I call my fur fur and my paws paws and so on (although when I'm around others and talking about them out loud then not necessarily, but I generally prefer to anyway, and I like it better when others do the same for me — although that doesn't happen hardly ever) and ofc it's not exclusive to English, I also do it in all the other languages I use when I can. Does that count? Can someone explain? Also do y'all use them for y'all selves? Do y'all ask others to use them for you, and if so, how?

TW: venting a bit too

I posted a questioning about if I was a fictionkin or not at this subreddit already on my other account I no longer have access to (Am I a fictionkin or is there any other label for it? : r/alterhuman) and after that, I considered myself a fictionkin for a while, but at the same time I think I worded it wrong and I may not be a fictionkin but instead, a fictionhearted or a synpath.
Yet, I feel like I am this character in not the literal sense, if I can explain it: it feels like I am that character in a level but I can't look at him and see me actually, like, I look at him, but I can't see myself, and I don't expect to see him in the mirror, but I feel like there is something wrong with me. There is something that I am not being able to recognize, and I already searched a lot of otherkinity and otherhearted and even otherchain since I feel like part of it was still voluntary, since he is my favorite character and I already felt like he related to me a lot for having the same traits as me. Maybe because I'm autistic I can't actually tell what I feel, it is confusing.
Even though I still have mental shifts and feel like I have some parts of the "kintype" I was relating to. It is complicated, and it is actually making me tired. Maybe I am trying to be too fast into identifying it, maybe I'm too anxious? I don't know. I am just confused and mad I can't find what I am feeling.

I already tried to act like the character, I remember even having euphoria once someone here called me by his name, I just don't know anymore in fact. I feel dysphoric over the fact I'm not him, I wish I was him, but I don't see myself as him literally. I wish it was easier, and I feel like I'm rushing too much into trying to discover what I am, or asking too much, but I know I am an alterhuman, at least this is the only certain I have for not feeling like I am fully one. I still feel like I'm a human, but partially if I can explain it.

Maybe I am one but I'm still not fully awakened? Maybe. I am not sure if there are any signs for it either. And I really apologize if I took the wrong identity and not be it, I actually thought I was that for a while until I started to think: maybe i'm not? My intention isn't to disrespect the label at all, I'm trying to discover myself and it is draining my energy

(I hope questioning is the best flair for this post)

I really apologize for asking too much, too, but I don't have any alterhuman friends but one that barely appears online so I can't talk to someone directly about it. I feel embarassed

So, I'm a (physical) dragon therian. And I hate the fact that i can't fly. Anyways, yesterday I went to my friend's house (who's also a therian) and we were jumping around on the trampoline. For a second, it felt like flying. But for some reason it only made the feeling worse because I can't actually fly, yk? Jumping on trampolines often got sugested when i asked how to deal with that kind of dyphoria before but it's clearly not working and only making it worse. Does anyone have any tips on how to deal with this?

me: just going out in nature and appreciating it

I identify as a VoidCreature.

It's an AlterHuman/NonHuman identity

Colors: Blues, purples, magentas, greys, white (maybe?) and black.

Tendrils coming up from the void. Black Mist. Fog. Void ambience. Void Creatures. Fear of the unknown. Calmness. Emptiness. Watcher Eyes watching you... watching everything. Black Void.

You can use symbols. As many stripes as you want. You can have gradients. You can make it as complex as you want. I do have some ideas (like having the bottom stripe be black and having tendrils coming up from it with a mist surrounding them)

I just feel like it's nice having a flag to fit my identity. No one seems willing to make one because they find my identity too weird or "fake".

So i previously used to identify as a therian, but I'm not quite sure that label fits me.

I'm looking for alterhuman identities where someone would identify as an animal, but voluntarily.

Like, i didn't have a past life, but i feel like inside, i am an animal.

I know usually people would say that's what a physical therian, but i'm not quite sure thats me.

Eh, this might sound confusing but I don't really know how else to word it.

It may just be that I'm some kind of therian or just a therian in general lolol

If this is the wrong place to post this, please tell me lol cause i dont know where to post this

But yh, if anyone could help me discover my identity it'd be plenty appreciated!! <3

Physical shifter, shapeshifter, wing-grower, polymorph, mythical, supernatural, whatever term you use to describe it; anybody else who experiences actual physical changes? Regardless of how big or small.

No hate to those that don't of course, I've just seen a lot use the physical label in a more conceptual or political way and was curious if any of us were here too.

We are fairly new to addressing and harnessing ours, but it has always been there. Usually our physical shifts manifest as bouts of thicker fur, mild face changes, sometimes handpaws/feetpaws changes, and our body being unable to hold humanoid poses or have humanoid dexterity. I wouldn't be surprised if our organs shift especially since we have other medical stomach things, but idk how folks confirm that lol.

We believe ours come from ancestry from either Ireland or the Phillipines, a mix of biological and meta/spiritual beliefs. Would love to hear about everyone else's experiences and origin theories!

So, some of you probably know r/Therian . It's great to get info and such, i just find it sad that physical therians are being excluded. How do you feel about that?

Is unknownkin an actual term or lable?? I saw it somewhere but can't find anything on it. I'm alterhuman as I've recently found out, but I'm unsure of what I am although I think I may be a species completely unknown and unexplored by humans, which is why I don't know and struggle to explain. I think unknownkin might help define my experience but I dont know if its a legitimate term or not. Any answers or feedback is very much appreciated :)

My dysphoria has been acting up for a while now. Thing is, it's from different theriotypes at the same time. Often gear helps me but it can only satisfy one theriotype, not all of them at once. Has anyone else been dealing with this?

I do not feel like i have a specific species, and I don't feel connected to my human body like in the way that I feel like my mind is a puppeter and I just move my body around from inside, but it doesn't feel like it's actually me. I feel like a speciesless being, sort of? Like I nothing and everything at the same time. I'm very confused. Does anyone have an idea of what I might be?

I have been struggling for as long as I can remember with my identity starting with species. I always used to pretend wholeheartedly that I was some other species into my 20s which helped with the species dysphoria a bit. Now what helps is participating in kemonomimi and being a furry even though I do not actually identify as an animal either. I feel as though I'm some other species that isn't human. I just don't know what species, but I feel as though it's one humans have never even heard of or experienced. Which makes it even harder to explain. So do I just lable myself alterhuman (a huge umbrella term) with no subgroup attached?? Am I alterhuman??