This is primarily an autism focused question, although allistics please do chime in if you have something interesting to say!

I’m not referring to stuff like Therians or “not feeling human”, although those are deeply fascinating topics. No I’m strictly referring to finding the task of imagining the human form (in say “daydream stories”) to be unpleasant/uncomfortable.

When I was real young I was REALLY uncomfortable imagining the human form. No problems with animals and weird creatures thought up by toddler me, those didn’t make me uncomfortable!

I brought this up with my IRL friend who’s also autistic. He also experienced something similar!

Anyone else also do this? I kinda want to just… Talk about it. It’s interesting.

  • I dislike having a human form

    I don’t have an autism diagnosis but am pretty sure I am somewhere on the symptom having part of the spectrum (i.e. a literal lifetime of interactions where people make jokes or just say things that I have absolutely no idea how to respond to, things like that, which I’ve kind of had to figure out in an intellectual way (masking lol) where for others it seems effortless) so idk if that would skew my response for you

    BUT personally I don’t feel uncomfortable imagining “the human form” in general, like thinking of others’ bodies or imagining a human shape. I am, however, increasingly deeply uncomfortable thinking about my own body. I think it’s because I’m kind of an anxious, hyper vigilant person, and I know both a great deal and way too little about biology (perfect score on the SAT2 😎 it really prepared me for a life of drudgery) and how the body functions, so like, I’m left with visceral imaginations of things like arterial plaques just slowly building up and killing me (but without the degree of knowledge where it’s like, yeah, i’m a doctor and I can fix or prevent this). I think about things like blood clots and embolisms and just how easy it is for something minute to go wrong in the wrong place and then, just… you’re dead

    So i just try not to think about my body