@elamarth-calmagol Boy am I glad you asked! (genuine) A quick, non-exhaustive list off the top of my head:

Otherhearted: identifying strongly with, but not as, something nonhuman or fictional. The thing you identify with is your hearttype. Hearttypes are often described as feeling "like family," a strong connection and resonance, etc. See also: kith, synpath (both usually defined identically; all three arose separately at around the same time and otherhearted became the most commonly seen).

Hearthome: a place, real or fictional, that feels "like home" to you, typically despite you never having lived or spent a significant amount of time there. I did a panel on this at Othercon 2024!

Archetrope: an alterhuman label for identifying with and/or as an archetype, trope, stock character, etc., often an archetype that you aspire to embody in your daily life. Vyt did a panel on this at Othercon 2023!

Paratype: an identity facet that only exists in relation to a preestablished identity. (For example, feeling a strong connection to dinosaurs because they evoke your draconity.)

Furry lifestyler: a person whose involvement in the furry fandom significantly affects their life and lifestyle and who deliberately embodies it in their daily life, such as by practicing walking in a faux-digitigrade stance or spending a lot of time doing activities their fursona would do. (See also this link.)

Kardiatype/Empeiratype: a past life that's still important to how you see yourself today, but which you do not currently identify as. Ryuu and Daski did a panel on this at Othercon 2024!

The furry lifestyler one always interests me because yeah...some believe very strongly that they are their fursona or at least are heavily spiritually linked to their fursona.

They enjoy animal-coded activities and would happily say they are {fursona animal}. Some even believe their fursona species to be involuntary. Alterhumanity sure is varied and interesting.

I mean it, I know someone who is a furry lifestyler and everyone knows her as and refers to her as the species of her fursona, which she seeks to embody not just in personality but in actions of that species. She just is a chinchilla.

I would honestly have a hard time telling the difference between a furry lifestyler and a therian who is also a furry if they didn't display any labels and I was just observing them acting animalistic whilst suited up or not and when asked they said 'yeah I'm a wolf 24/7 basically' when asked.

Does it even matter if the lifestyler chose their fursona? No. Does it matter that they still might experience a separation between themselves and the fursona in some way? No. Would it be my right to say 'well if you in any way identify as an animal you're therian/otherkin!' also no.

No matter how close I think their identity is to such.

Anyway whenever you get hot and bothered and your fur/feathers/scales/hair etc start prickling at the idea that furries are alterhuman remember it means the ones who are embodying their fursona species i.e. are in some way animals too.

Adding again:

PLURALITY.

PLURALITY PLURALITY PLURALITY.

Iwrc plurality, origins-inclusive to boot, was literally in consideration with the initial coining too and we feel like people ignore the “alter” part of “alterhuman” is about having an “alternate”, ie, non-traditional, experience to humanity, and with the constant erasure we feel as an endogenic system we feel like this word could help us if people didn’t fucking assume alterhuman was the same thing as nonhuman.

Like, sure yes it also could help those of us who are fictives, fictionkin, whatever, BUT EVEN IGNORING THAT, we could point at the word alterhuman and go “yeah we are systemically erased, as an endogenic system, we feel as if people do this on purpose because plurality is a form of alterhumanity and people don’t like being challenged with the idea their social norms are inherently oppressive”

Forgive the cheekiness of the meme, but in all seriousness, if you're open to a little feedback - I recognize that Google Forms probably has a limit on how many answer options you can have per question, but if that's an issue here I think the "what alterhuman labels do you use" question probably would have been better served by including more labels outside nonhumanity than by including subsets of labels that already have an option (plantkin and conceptkin in particular, which are already covered by otherkin and I'm not really sure why those specifically are given separate options when no other group of kintypes is?) and fairly obscure nonhuman labels (such as were). There's a lot of alterhuman terms that aren't on this - archetrope, hearthome, daemian/daemon, etc. - that got skipped in favor of these. And to be clear, I don't mind these nonhuman terms being included - but by including sublabels and relatively obscure nonhuman terms and not including almost anything outside of nonhumanity, you've kind of made what reads like a nonhuman survey with a couple other things tacked on as an afterthought. The fact that there's a write-in "other" answer does help a lot, I wouldn't necessarily say it necessitates a rewrite entirely (or else a rename to nonhuman instead of alterhuman) like some surveys I've seen really should have, but just - something to think about for any surveys you may run in the future.

That being said, I am interested to see the results of this one - it's something I see talked about periodically, but it's always interesting to see numbers put to community discussions. Thank you for running this!

^^^^

It irks us too because plurality is alterhuman. It’s ALSO neurodivergent. Those are both qualities/descriptors of plurality both at once at the same time and we have said it on and off that the weird separation of plurality from neurodiversity is that. WEIRD. It reeks a lot of “the only valid forms of neurodiversity are ones that are pathological, and pathological by the standards of oppressors psychiatrists specifically”

ESPECIALLY when the options to the question of “are you neurodivergent” are yes (diagnosed); yes (suspected); and no

Did you know you could argue left handedness is neurodivergent because of how it was historically treated??? Where the fuck did your “pluralpunk” go when you assumed yet again all systems must be disordered? SURE now you’re acknowledging endogenics can have CDDs but the point is to fucking separate disordered-ness from origins (not even to get into, like, how we feel as if a lot of the criteria is just…pathologizing being more than one person anyways). And sure we know a lot of people hate transID-adjacent communities — but we think there’s still something interesting to say about the idea of enorders even if the wording is, to most people, a bit simplistic — regardless of your opinion on transIDs specifically the deconstruction on what a disorder even is, is fucking interesting/amazing to us. Unlike, for example, aspie supremacists, the community that coined enorders did not ever once coin enorder to separate from the “bad actually disabled people” but literally because the lexical gap was there.

So. Like. WDK it says something to us when people word their questions in favor of psychiatrists the cops instead of allowing for that wiggle room to happen.

And in case it wasn’t clear. No. We’re not actually mad (at OP we mean more just…having Feelings we suppose) and don’t think there’s any ill will behind something like this. We’ve just happened to deal with Too Much even in our current life and used to obsessively research anything that could put our own experiences (and oppression for those experiences) into perspective. Anti-psychiatric views are oppressed, repressed, and censored all of the time and especially LEFTIST anti-psychiatry. WDK it’s more just. Food for thought we guess?