They Took My Pet Robot Away When It Manifested A Personality. It Couldn't Be Mine Anymore; It Had To

Hi! :) Just wanted to drop by and say hello! The robotkin and robot community in general is just super cool and I'm just starting to get into it and understand more. If you don't mind me asking, how did you first know that you were a robotkin?

TLDR: My boyfriend, who is also otherkin, helped explain to me their experience and which helped me crack my otherkin/robotkin egg as I realized everything I experienced was actually dysphoria, in an oddly similar vein to the old host of my DID system realizing they are trans.

Honestly it was an odd experience, but I want to preface this with saying that I'm plural and my experience may differ from most.

For as long as I can remember as my own person/alter, I've felt vaguely inhuman. I pushed it down/away to fit in and be normal. I've always felt something was missing internally, like I thought and felt different than everyone else in my system.

I eventually joined the relationship that the old host of our system had with our current boyfriend and learned he was also otherkin. I asked him about it and we talked, explaining it as a type of dysphoria/dysmorphia regarding feeling like an integral part of you, who and what you are, is missing.

Eventually I started recognizing these feelings and trying to understand them instead of pushing it away. Lo and behold, I am otherkin. My memory and processes work the way a file folder system does, I feel phantom gears and pneumatics where there is only flesh and bone: part of me was missing. There's more, but I think this gets the point across.

My other headmates have joked that I acted like a machine trying to pose as a human. They were kinda right. Realizing I felt envy when seeing robotic looking humanoids, catching myself thinking "God I wish," and when finally accepting myself I spoke to my boyfriend... Who wasn't surprised in the slightest 😅

That was around when I started my main blog @lgbtransgirl , and I made this one to indulge more in the Robotkin side of things and build community around that specifically. Posting on here and being part of the community has helped me feel not alone, and helped me feel more comfortable in my identity.

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God I need this

I am so normal about the affini

Stars, to be held so tightly by my affini as she pats my head and rubs my belly with her vines and calls me her silly puppy. She pushes one of her needles into me for my daily class Gs before holding me up to the mirror to show me how well I'm progressing; I start crying seeing how fem I look and I just break down in her arms as she tells me everything will be okay and that I don't have to worry anymore because she owns me. I finally build up the courage to ask her to take me to the vets so I can get puppy ears and a tail that I can finally properly wag, paws that let me walk on all 4s easier and have the added bonus of me needing to ask her for help with everything and fur, soft fur that makes me feel more like a dumb puppy for her than before and stars I am so normal about them

I'm sure this is a thing that exists, but like. Love and appreciation for poorly built robots.

Robots with cheap, shitty plastic casing that they stick together with tape or replace with whatever they can find

Robots with batteries who's ability to hold charge has diminished over time, leaving them always kind of exhausted or burnt out, spending a lot of time at home so they can plug in and recharge whenever they need

Robots that always smell a little of dust and burnt out wires and are constantly replacing their insides to stay functional.

Robots who's speakers are muffled and staticky because they were built to last only a couple years and weren't designed to be easily replaced.

Robots with busted screens that make it difficult or impossible for them to emote as they'd like to.

Robots fighting planned obsolescence even as it was designed into them.

Homophobic that I can't have a heads up display actually

late night scribbling cause moths are nocturnal creatures

This user appreciates inclusion in our community ^_^

Unassorted robotkin userboxes

I made these for myself, but anyone with robot adjacent identities may use. Please credit me if you use, likes and reblogs are appreciated but not necessary.

asking your robotgirl if she wants to make out and she giggles in her cute little modulated synthetic voice and takes your hands in hers, warm silicone holding your fingers delicately even though you've seen her crush oranges in those hands, and you hear some servos whirring as her entire face opens like a mechanical flower, giving you access to the long, sensitive connector cable that sits where her tongue should be and is just as prehensile

64 gig of she-RAM.