Do you feel connected to humanity?

[Keith]

To be honest I have no idea. I mean I know that I'm a human.

But do I feel like a human? No idea. I have absolutely no idea what it means. Because even though I can relate to a lot of human creations, such as songs, characters from stories and ect, I still feel like I'm different from people themselves - especially from those in my surrounding. I just don't do a lot of things that are considered as normal, and it results in me not being able to relate to most of the people my age. Also I've been told multiple times that I act weird (it was probabbly due to my autism - I don't know if I can call myself autistic, because  even if I had suspitions of it ever since I was a child, I've never got a proper diagnosis, so if I can't, then please tell me - or maybe some undiagnosed mental illness), and I think that's one of the reasons why I feel 'dissconected' from humanity.

Edited December 4, 2022 by Keith

[AromanticAardvark]

I don't feel much of a connection to humanity (especially with the emphasis on love being human), but I don't feel much of a connection to anything else or to nonhumanity either, so I guess I feel more human than not

[S-Hawk]

i do feel emotions that society consider as human. but my aroaceness eats it away because of how society views aroace people. i feel connected to humanity because of the emotions i still feel; but i stray away from the social constructs humans had created. i dont know why those exist yet ive been fed those since im an infant and its been imbued deeply into my psyche to abandon now. i feel really disconnected to politics economics etc because i dont find it necessary at all nor do i bother to look at how these even works

[that halo nerd]

I will use a metofore for my humanity... Think of like rows of computers from lets say microsoft and there is one computer that someone put diffrent things in so not entirly made by microsoft but not a entirly a new computer.

[Raven-in-daylight]

the way we& see it, there’s a big difference between “human” in the species sense, and the concept of “humanity”. the former, we& (unfortunately) can’t get around. we& have a human body. we’re mostly okay with it, albeit with the occasional spikes of dysphoria. 

it’s the concept of humanity that we& feel alienated around. we’ve been told how a human is supposed to feel, to think, to act. a human is supposed to feel love (in the romantic sense as that is the greatest form of love). a human is supposed to understand nonverbal cues, body language, indirect communication. a human is supposed to feel connected by these common experiences. a human is supposed to follow hidden rules, commonly known and never explained. if one does not, one is inhuman. 

now, we& are a aromantic, asexual, autistic system. we are confused by all the hidden rules and expectations in society. we don’t feel what society tells us every human feels. we legitimately have an easier time understanding a cat’s body language than a humans. and, perhaps most importantly, we’ve been told our entire lives that we aren’t really human. 

as far as we’re concerned, humanity is a social identity, which does not have space for our existence. why would we choose to care for something that cannot fathom our being?

so no, i guess we& don’t feel human. 

[catparent7092]

Yeah, my life is alternative, but if you look through history, and even now, there still remains alternative methods of living a life connected to other humans. I have to talk to a lot of people as a blue collar worker, and more often than not when we get around to discussing our lives people see my ways less as wrong and more just alternative.  Might be how I talk with people, might be the bond of blood,sweat, and tears that comes with my job, but despite major differences I am human, and I connect with others despite our differences in what we feel(differences in other, more dire and urgent beliefs are a different matter Ex: Matters of Hate like Bigotry,etc). 

Edited Saturday at 01:07 PM by catparent7092