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Weâve been thinking, the response to being dehumanized are often divided into âno, Iâm still human!â and âfine then, Iâm nonhuman and Iâm proud, deal with itâ. We understand why nonhumans tend to be the latter, but we seem to go with the former. To us, both options are correct. To us, maybe the difference is caused by our species identity because most of us are human.
Nonhumans would challenge the norm that only humans deserve respect. Obviously we canât say for sure if other people see it the same way too, but the âIâm still humanâ side, at least when we say it, challenges the norm of what counts as human in the first place. At least when we see it, these are two sides of the same âwe deserve respect tooâ coin.
The ways weâre human can vary. Most of us are close to standard human save from a few things like being someone that most people consider a fictional character. Some are born nonhuman but has lived with/as humans for long enough to see themselves as human too. Some others are born human, but forced into nonhumanity in some fashion and it barely changes how they identify on the inside. In general, we tend to be tied to humanity in some way and itâll feel wrong for at least the majority of us to completely divorce ourselves from it.
This is just a guess, but maybe we lean this way at least partially because weâre multiply marginalized. Other than being alterhuman, weâre also queer, neurodivergent, and part of a racial and religious minority among other things, and these groups are very often dehumanized by those in positions of power and privilege. This may have ended up planting this idea in our subconscious revolving around fighting our way to get our humanity to be recognized, and it informs how we tend to navigate through alterhuman communities. Being loud about our human alterhumanity in hopes of reaching other folks and being recognized as alterhuman too, even when we donât fit the norms of a given space in some way.
All the junk weâve seen in our recent doomscrolling phase gave us this meme idea
Text: We being a sort of âwe donât fit neatly into community-defined boxesâ vibe to the online communities that exclusionists donât really like
One drawback of having a bajilion fictives from your media interests: you canât pick a collective fave to save your lives because everyone gravitates towards their sources in some way or another, or some of the members have completely different faves
For the human alterhumans, especially ones with complicated stuff going on with their species identity.
When making these, we had our own system members in mind. Those who are human, but not quite âstandardâ human in a way. Those who, for any reason, donât consider themselves nonhuman despite experiencing shifts that would be considered normal for nonhuman kin identities
Made with this!
Actually we got interested in looking at it again so
The power of naming
We don't claim that every multiple system/household is a happy loving cooperative one. What we do question is the *identification* of "real multiples" with the characteristics or symptoms of a psychological disorder. We go further: we question by what right or authority doctors and therapists are given sole jurisdiction over the definition of "an individual".
This is one reason our clan encourages use of the word "plural" rather than "multiple". "Multiple", even standing by itself, brings to mind MPD/DID, "multiple personality disorder", "dissociative identity disorder", which are specific diagnoses created by the medical/therapeutic community. "Plural" is a much more neutral word, more commonly heard in the context of grammar than psychiatry. (The other reason, of course, is that plural can be construed to have a broader meaning, applying to anyone(s) anywhere on the continuum who experience themselves as plural in some way. )
The power to name is the power to define reality. I/we claim the power to define and describe our own reality. We do not cede it to external authority figures, however impressively credentialed they may be.
This is the closest thing to the coining of plurality that we can remember. We donât remember anything similar from there
Do we want to be louder about our problem with sysmember race discourse and how it never considers our existence or do we want to be safe from bule sotoy. Decisions decisions
One problem we encountered when identifying as anime idols (and really, most anime girls in general) is navigating through internalized biases wrt body image (fatphobia, among other things possibly) and working on unlearning that, and these identitiesâ sources are often intertwined with womenâs beauty standards and how society think women should be like. In this essay I will-