And I'm involved in the alterhuman community now, which makes my analysis of my humanity very different from an orthohuman analysis of humanity - whenever I write about my species identity as human, I know that it is a species identity, and I can compare/contrast it with the lived nonhumanity of others, and that gives me a fundamentally alterhuman perspective on my species.

I like how you worded this, Gavin. I consider myself orthohuman, but somehow never considered the fact that I have a fundamentally different point of view than another orthohuman who doesn't know about the community or species identity...making my views alterhuman in their own way. Kind of like examining my gender from my system's queer perspective even though I'm cisgender...nevertheless, there is something queer about the act of examining, because many cis people don't even think about it to begin with. I think it's both interesting and a good thing!

-B