I want to add on, as someone who has been in both the alterhuman vampirism community and Vampyre Community and run spaces for both with still running one currently.
As long as you have a Need to feed, you have a claim in either community. Even without a Need but still can feed, vampiric is the term for that in these communities.
There is quite a bit of difference between the alterhuman and vampyre subculture, but resources tend to be shared between them and there are not a lot of alterhuman-specific vampirism resources out there.
You don't have to fit the gothic/victorian vampire aesthetic or stereotypes. Unfortunately, most spaces cater to this. We specifically made a space that rejects it by giving it a pastel teatime aesthetic instead of the typical coffins, bats, black, and red. Even as the frontstuck vampire of my own system, I reject the aesthetic.
As for feeding, not wanting the blood of others is not inherently a bad thing. We've had people ask for things like vegan alternatives for blood, and there are a lot of common substitutes that aren't from people or animals. With autofeeding, it is very important to stay safe, especially since it does not often fill anyone completely and many say that their own blood or energy tastes poor in comparison to that of others or other sources like weather, nature, or ambient feeding. Not to mention being closeted, risk of infection if cuts are not properly cleaned or taken care of.
Unfortunately, there still is a lot of vampires that believe that clinical vampirism is a real diagnosis- and such there is often a push for a rejection of psychological identities to be recognized as valid. (It is not a real diagnosis, and someone's diagnosis should not make their experiences and identity less valid. We eat people who try to parrot that. /hj)
It is something difficult to navigate, especially since not all vampires consider themself vampirekin due to not having shifts or it just feeling as if it is a part pf who they are without it being a kintype. It also very much depends what community you start at that shapes how you may approach or believe your vampirism originated. (The redheads being vampires/descendants of Judas being vampires thing? That is sometimes still brought up as a cause for vampirism in the VC due to the emphasis on subculture identity as a group, but this I have never seen in an alterhuman space, as an example of how the two differ.)
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