the debate about alterhumanity being about what's divergent from the "normal" feels like it's inherently going to be othering to some. if you see "you're not normal" as a bad thing and see your identity as normal and others force a label on you that says "you fall outside the norm" then thats just fueling everything bad.
Or consider someone has trauma from being seen as not normal or inhuman. Maybe they wouldn't appreciate having their experiences labeled as strange or falling outside of "human experience."
my statement was more intended to be "alterhumanity is normal, actually" and less "we should continue to call people abnormal for experiences that can fall under alterhumanity", because the latter was what i was critiquing here
this whole conversation is a bit tedious though because what's "normal" varies between person to person and if you think "i'm normal im not alterhuman because im normal and alterhumans are not normal" that's fine but consider: your definition of normal may differ from others, and "normalcy" shouldn't be a value judgement








