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Safety PSA

I've seen a lot of people talk about getting harassed while publicly gearing and the advice they have given on how to handle it is not safe. First and foremost, if someone is verbally harassing you, do not engage. I know its tempting to say something back but just keep on walking, don't look, don't talk.

If that doesn't work and they start following you. Go somewhere public with lots of people, a police/fire station, a store, anywhere. Do NOT go home if you are being followed. Don't lead them to where you live.

Dial 911 (or whatever your emergency line is) if you think you are in immediate danger.

If you don't think you need to call emergency services but you still need/want help, call a friend to come and pick you up.

This one is for minors (cus ya shouldn't be going up to random adults): If you need help and its unsafe to call someone, find a family or an adult with a child and tell the adult that you are in danger and need help.

Don't go alone, take a friend or a family member with you. If you're going out after dark tell a trusted adult where you are going and when you are coming back.

Do not engage physically unless you absolutely have to, laws on self defense are super strict on what actually counts. Plus its just not a good idea to fight. Fighting should only be the last resort if nothing else is available. And also, please for the love of god do NOT pull out a knife or a weapon, that will just escalate the situation and make things worse.

And even before you go out, consider this: Is it safe for me to go out? Do I live in a safe enough area to do this?

Always carry your phone or a way of contacting help and make sure it has enough battery life.

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For the sake of simplicity, physical alterhumanity will also include biological alterhumanity for this info post.

Experiences are different for everyone so this can't be used as a blanket statement for every physical alterhuman. Physical alterhumanity is physically being your kintype, for some (like myself) they were born as their kintype and were raised to be a human. Others shift into their kintype. Some were born their kintype but were later physically changed by humans (most of us aren't sure why, it seems to have been targeted towards marine mammals). Theres also transspecies individuals who I consider to be physical alterhumans, however not all transspecies folk use the term alterhuman.

There are a lot of theories on how it works, the most simple one is they were born a were-creature or their kintype, others are the way they are due to trauma, some due to delusions or other psychiatric causes. Theres no one solid answer on how or why it happens.

I was born as a canine, I am deformed compared to my wild counterparts due to being forced to be bipedal. I'm not exactly sure on why my body is different but I theorize it is a mix of birth defects and being raised as a human.

I have seen a change in the definition of physical alterhumanity/nonhumanity as of recent, (a whole separation between biological and physical nonhumanity when in the past I have seen it only being described as physical as the biological part was a part of the physical definition) and while I am not against it, I strongly urge y'all to please, don't push out the nonhumans who are biologically not human. We have been pushed out of our own spaces that we helped build (cough cough therian community), please be kind to us, we will welcome you into our spaces so long as you don't push us out

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Asks/response/interactions Guide

Makin this since its too big to go in my intro post. I struggle with chronic fatigue, I try my best to respond to everyone but some days I just can't. This might lead to delays between response times. I don't mind questions however I struggle to respond to more broad/open questions, its easier for me to respond to specific questions. I am very open about my identity as a canine, I don't mind getting into the gross details however I won't go into discussions on the logistics of how it works.

I have a very hard time reading tone through text and I will block anyone who makes me uncomfortable or who interacts with any kind of aggression.

I don't have a DNI list, I try to be as open and welcoming as I can be. I don't mind 13-14 y/os interacting but please be cautious as my blog does get into some mature topics every once and a while.

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Been thinking about this a bit more, I think I got the general color scheme right but I think I have more blue-ish greys to my coat. Its really hard to tell, all that I know so far is that I have a dark/black coat

Kinda sorta a self portrait, I can't draw myself very well yet so I used a base by webnose Honestly not sure if its completely accurate to myself but at this point I'd say its the closest image I have to myself

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Canidae journal entry #3 - 7.28.2025 PNW K9-445 Yesterday I went to the beach with my sire, there weren't many humans there so it was pretty decent. The weather was a bit warmer than I'd have liked. It's nice being back in my natural range, it's hard for me to find many beaches that don't have a bunch of humans on them. I'm still figuring out the social aspect of it but eventually I'd like to start my transition publicly. I'm not really sure how to start but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

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how did you manage to come to terms with your alterhuman identity?/genq

I am alterhuman but struggle with like acknowledging it so I was wondering if you had any tips ^^

I was born as I am now so this has been my experience from early childhood until the gap between then and now. There was a time in my life where I forgot I was a canine, it was trained out of me after living with humans for so long. Coming to terms with it was something that was complicated, it wasn't hard for me to accept that I wasn't human. The hardest part has been undoing the years of captivity, I've been mostly relearning how to be a canine. It's not something that you have to acknowledge every single day of your life, my experience does affect my everyday life but that isn't the same for others. My biggest advice is just to navigate life as best you can while also not forcing it away. The more you repress it the worst it gets

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Complex feelings tonight.

I want to live my life as a canine without hiding it but I don't want to draw attention towards myself. I am very noise sensitive and even if I won't be physically harassed, I don't think I can handle verbal harassment.

I can't keep living in the in-between, it hurts to hide.

My friends know I'm a canine, sort of. They still expect me to act like a human. I'm tired.

My caretaker tries their best with me but they still force me to do human things.

I think it's killing me, I physically and psychologically struggle with human life. I think it's causing me physical sickness to pretend to be a human.

I will try to broach this subject with my caretaker but I highly doubt they will listen, it's going to be hard but I think I need to start forcing my transition or else I'll just keep spiraling

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A part of me would like to wean off of my medication. I don't know how it will affect my reality or if it will make my canid urges and body be more clear to me. It's just a silly daydream though, it's not possible to wean off my meds as I need them to feel safe. It would also revert a lot of the progress I've made.

It's a nice thought though, to be off the meds and be more connected to my canid self. I don't even know if going off the meds would cause it

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Kinda sorta a self portrait, I can't draw myself very well yet so I used a base by webnose Honestly not sure if its completely accurate to myself but at this point I'd say its the closest image I have to myself

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Canidae journal entry #2 - 7.26.2025 PNW K9-445

A little clarification before we begin, the journal entries are about my life and my experiences going through life being a canine. But not all of my journal entries will be heavily focused on it, it depends on what I feel like posting.

Pack dynamics are shifting, I dearly love my old pack however they do not make me feel safe enough to be myself. I am visiting a newer pack member today, I forgot that I was expected to be with my old pack today so they are unhappy. It is frustrating, I wish they would understand that its not that its "too much effort" to see them, it is just that I wish to build relations with others.

I have been considering dressing in a way that makes me happy, risk of harassment keeps me wary.

I dislike public transportation, I cannot stand for very long due to pain in my legs. However I am not visibly disabled so I feel I would be putting myself at greater risk of harassment if I were to sit in the designated disabled seating. I dislike how I have to "prove" my disability to be granted accommodations.

I also have cognitive disabilities, my short term memory (and generally my memory overall) is spotty, often times it is very poor and I cannot remember what has happened in the last week. Rarely is it very good where I can remember exactly what happened. I often forget that people have texted me or that they invited me to do something. People are not very friendly towards it, they think I do not care for them or that I do not try. It is not laziness, as much as I wish it was, I cannot control it very well.

I am often seen as lazy or not motivated enough to try but thats not simply what is going on, I just don't have enough energy and it takes a lot of effort to do even the smallest of tasks on the worst days.

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I don't really share this kinda stuff very often due to the fact that I'm very protective of my fragments and I also don't want to get dragged into the nightmare that is syscourse. I consider it a part of my nonhumanity, its a response created to help deal with the stress of being a nonhuman in a human society (among other things as well) I've been hesitant to share personal details about them, such as their names and whatnot but recently I've been curious about if others experience this. This will probably be my last post on this topic depending on if others ask

Not sure what to tag this as tbh. I've created fragments of myself, personas I can swap out like masks. They help me to regulate the stress of daily life, I currently have a few. One for lust, one for childhood, one for anger and one for functionality, lastly theres me. I wouldn't say these fragments are separate consciousness but we are able to communicate in a way where it is an organic conversation that isn't staged. They are still me though, its quite odd. I'm not sure what to make of this development but it is helpful in managing my day-to-day life. It is also the reason you might see a difference in writing style between my posts, I try to post as the same fragment but often times my anger fragment has posted. This isn't to say they can make separate decisions from me, they are still me so I can control them. I have named them, but I suspect this is to combat loneliness. I don't know what I should do about them, if anything. They don't seem harmful so I'm letting it be for now. I consider them to be an 'us' of some sort, all of us together make up one being. However I am the 'head/heart' of the body as I have existed before the fragments. This post is not about plurality or systems I am not a system nor am I plural, don't drag syscourse into this post

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Not sure what to tag this as tbh. I've created fragments of myself, personas I can swap out like masks. They help me to regulate the stress of daily life, I currently have a few. One for lust, one for childhood, one for anger and one for functionality, lastly theres me. I wouldn't say these fragments are separate consciousness but we are able to communicate in a way where it is an organic conversation that isn't staged. They are still me though, its quite odd. I'm not sure what to make of this development but it is helpful in managing my day-to-day life. It is also the reason you might see a difference in writing style between my posts, I try to post as the same fragment but often times my anger fragment has posted. This isn't to say they can make separate decisions from me, they are still me so I can control them. I have named them, but I suspect this is to combat loneliness. I don't know what I should do about them, if anything. They don't seem harmful so I'm letting it be for now. I consider them to be an 'us' of some sort, all of us together make up one being. However I am the 'head/heart' of the body as I have existed before the fragments. This post is not about plurality or systems I am not a system nor am I plural, don't drag syscourse into this post

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I will never understand adding a trigger warning when talking about religion, it makes me immediately distrust someone when they do that

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I'm sick of human gender concepts, I hate how theres a divide between masc and femme. It doesn't matter where I go, nonhuman, queer, every space has it. Its so weird to treat one gender as 'pure' and the other as 'evil', folks should be judged by their actions, not their identity. As someone who has lived life perceived both as male and as female, gender, sex, whatever doesn't matter, people are shitty regardless. Stop trying to pin the blame on eachother and actually work together to fix the issue

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I've never really thought about it honestly but yeah, I definitely do think I've seen a lot more masc nonhumans than I have femme nonhumans. For me personally It's easy to forget about genders and presentation in this community since I see nonhumans as their kintype

is it strange for me to say that i feel like the nonhuman community is masc dominated.

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Augh one thing I hate about plushie making/altering patterns is making dummy parts of a plush so I can get the color patterns right, I currently have to make two dummy parts and I just want it to be over withh

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I'm going to try and start posting more tutorials for nonhuman gear that isn't uncomfortable to wear long term. I've found that most of the gear in the community is not suited towards everyday use