not wanting to be human??

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I can't say I ever acted like an animal (ie. chasing things on all fours), but there have been times I have imagined being something other than human. I connect far more easily to the animal world (and even the plant world!) than I do to humans. I mean, there are certain humans I love very much, but humanity as a whole, I am not too fond of. I just don't "get" them, and I don't feel as though I truly belong in their world. I think I would be happier in the animal/natural world.

oh yeah I definitely have. I've run around on all fours until it was physically too difficult.
I'd love to have a part-time 'beast mode'

I pretended to be an animal but generally as a young child. I was sent to the headmaster's office when I was younger in school for acting like a cat (which was unreasonable because I was pretty young.) I always fantasised about being able to become an animal and always thought when I was younger that I should have been born an animal, and that it was some mistake that I'd been born human.

I can definitely see your point of view. Animals lead simple lives, and as humans I think we've overcomplicated things a lot more than we should have. Animals are very direct and genuine while humans say things they don't really mean and wind complicated mazes around some of the most simple things.

I always wished to be an animal, maybe not quite to the extent that you did, but I wanted to live as an animal. For example a cat, things would be more immediate and you'd be able to go outside and explore and feel the immediate things rather than sitting around overthinking things. You'd be able to find little dens and curl up in the darkness. It's no wonder being an animal appeals to so many people especially when you're a child

I feel like a human placed on a planet of aliens.

There's more to it than a coincidence, but less than you'd like to believe.

Consider that people with ASD have different brains in the first place. We are part of a species that is irrevocably social, and we don't connect up socially the way others do. We are bound to feel like our entire beings are different because of this.

Our amygdalas are overactive and we respond to things more viscerally than "normal people." We are more like the dog when, hit by the car, will fear the road it was looking at beforehand rather than the car. (Metaphor borrowed from Temple Grandin, I think.) Our "gut" reactions to things are less susceptible to shaping and changing than other people. We have strong, "animal" reactions to things.

Everyone can change themselves to some degree, even neurologically. But sometimes people start out differently, and it's hard bridging the gap. With that in mind, is it hard to understand why you wouldn't feel like a human?

http://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html

(Speaking from a purely scientific perspective here. We all have our personal beliefs about how we are, and are entitled to them.)

Other way around for me

I remember feeling as if I was born in the wrong body as a kid. Not the wrong gender, but the wrong species. I was supposed to have been a jaguar or a Siamese cat!

When I was a boy, I LOVED pretending to be birds, bats, four- footed creatures, whatever animal that caught my attention.
Now, as an adult, I simply am a nature- lover. I still enjoy watching bats fly around the overhead light, and I now have a cat and dog to care for.

Interesting about the animal mind. explains why under extreeme stress I act like an animal.

Dogs eat their own crap btw, and tend to lick up vomit.

Just throwin it out there for all you imaginative youths.

When I was young (can't remember exactly how young, though), for about a year and a half of my life, I walked round on all fours, barked, played with the dogs on all fours (much like another dog would) and wanted to be fed out of a bowl on the floor and sleep in the dog basket. This was 24/7!
Thankfully my parents saw it as just a phase rather than anything seriously wrong.

I wish I could distance myself from humanity. I don't feel l belong with "humans"
I wish I were a goddamn tree!

I also remember wanting to be a snake. Speficaly so I could bite people who got too close or who were mean to me. I OFTEN felt under pressure and attacked as a child...for once I wanted to be the attacker.

But I felt that speficaly I was supposed to be a leopard or a jaguar. I had the same vivid dream about a jaguar evernight as a kid and eventualy the same dream about a jaguar in a cage or in a zoo. I don't put much creedence in dream interpation books beucase a lot of them say that a caged animal in a dream means having something under control. I think the dream was representing how I felt. I think I was the jaguar in the cage. I often felt traped and like I had no say or control of what happened in my life.

I feel a deep sureal bond with snakes. My uncle danny once pulled a handful of garter snakes out of the storm shelter when I was 5 and held them up in the air like some kind of pagan god. I remeber screaming totally terrified of what looked like the hair of medusa twisting in his hand. After that, I felt a deep facination with snakes. I was branded.

I run a successful business and economics is actually pretty simple, at the "real life" level. Sure, it gets more complex as you get into academics, but when it comes to asking for money and offering services/products, it's pretty simple to understand. Just beat your competitors and you're golden!

Unless they have an owner like me.