Alienplurid

Most people who know us associate us with either Ford Prefect from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and/or Thomas Jerome Newton from "The Man Who Fell to Earth". Both of these characters are alcoholic aliens who (at least some of the time, for Ford) are stuck on Earth and feel very isolated about it.

These characters are a big part of what we mean when we say we collectively identify with aliens. In particular, our system feels a lot like an alien living on Earth and coping about as well as a character like Thomas Jerome Newton does, and in similar ways.

Due to our trauma history, queerness, neurodivergency, and system, we're someone whose real self is very difficult to explain to people we meet, even online sometimes. A lot of things we have to say about ourselves, a lot of people would not believe or would consider us insane or conspiratorial for thinking, which is how people would treat you if you claimed to be an alien.

However, being an alien isn't an entirely negative experience. It makes the company of other aliens - others similar to us - that much more important. That's why it's important that we don't just identify with or as these characters but that they're our fictional partners and friends as well.

In addition to this general identification with aliens as a collective, we also get a lot of headmates who are alien extranths. We even have a species in our innerworld lore - starsingers - that are aliens that take a form based on music. There are also a lot of headmates who have delusions of being an alien; while they acknowledge they were "born human", they don't consider humans to be their species, and no one in the system talks about them as though they're human.

The alien delusion in our system is undoubtedly a result of trauma and neurodivergency and feeling so isolated and different from others that we may as well be a different species. While some people have tried to discourage us from identifying with the concept of being a different species from those around us, the fact of the matter is that we genuinely behave and are treated in a way that is very different from what we see as typical for the people around us, and it is more represented by the experience of being an alien than it is by much anything else.

Due to the majority of the system having a disconnect from binary gender and the body being intersex, this all makes aliens a very appealing thing to relate our gender to. This is especially under the lens that aliens might have their own versions of "man" and "woman" but that are different from humans' concepts of those genders. We also speculate that aliens might have different genders or sexes that are considered normative to their species, and possibly even different views towards gender or sex variations that AREN'T considered normative.