Satan's dog

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The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.

For mine, it's a mix of a lot of things as well. It mainly stems from neurodivergency, then you sprinkle in some trauma, mental illness and dehumanization.

But I've always been an animal. As a young autistic child i was an animal. That part was wholly from neurodivergence. Then now it's a big mix, I'd say still most of my identity stems from being autistic but there's also a lot of behaviors that i can now attribute to trauma. Some reactions i have blend trauma and animal behavioural reactions.

Me being a physical nonhuman is a little bit from dehumanization but still mostly from autism. It's me after some time starting to see my vessel as what it really is. Feeling the ears and the tail, the paws and the snout. While this isn't part of the question i fell it's still relevant: at the beginning of my journey as a discovered the labels and words under the alterhuman umbrella, i couldn't understand all that spoke of shifting. But that makes sense now because i always felt like what i was. There was no real shift to have. It just took a bit more understanding of myself to get that.

I wouldn't be able to eat mass amounts of white rice, or hang out with my friends the same way I do now

I wouldn't be able to eat all the candy or foods I do, I get to cuddle all my stuffed animals and indulge in all my interests or hyperfixations