#|:: my friend with permanent paralysis starts cackling on our lunch dc call and instead of telling me why

[rotomblr-offmychest]

I (teen HTP) got turned into a Pokemon 8 months ago. Honestly I'm chilling but there's one bit that makes me wish it never happened every time I think about it: the "support" groups (online since there are none in person in my region, yay!/s)

First off, why the fuck are we called "eebies" and "eebydeebies"?

1. It's so infantilizing. Imagine a loved one dies because they had "cancywancy" or getting the news you're paralyzed after an accident with the doctors going "you got stickysittied".

2. Is there a reason behind it??? All I can piece together is that some group of humons (the better fuckign phrase) on here, dear old rotomblr, were the first to reach out to those like them and name themselves because no one outside of them did. So everyone's really just fine letting these terminally online individuals name us seemingly forever after some shitty meme???

3. Humons. Is a term. That exists. It's what Pokemon who've lived with humans enough to know that's what they're called call them in their language. It also accurately describes the experience many HTPs feel - a human Pokemon. Sure some don't feel that way, that's the same with trans people who don't identify as trans despite technically fitting the definition. And they aren't calling for the term to be changed, they simply don't want to be called it!

I just. Every time my human family & friends try to help me with some issue that we come across to do with my new way of being I have to read that phrase and I can't help but feel like I'm being mocked.

For anyone who doesn't know, HTP = human-to/turned-pokémon. I've only learnt of this from this ask and looked it up to confirm. The more you know. 🌈🌟

Anyway I have no real weight in this. I can say 1 the first time i heard the phrase i did think someone was playing a prank purely because of the name before looking further into it & 2 I do know people who fit the “trans” situation your describing and I know calling them trans would hurt them irrevocably

The humon thing is very interesting tho! Thanks for teaching me that, htp, and a whole bunch of discourse I didn't know existed! /gen