Discovering my paratype first

I connected to vulcans, before discovering my main protoss identity. And I now consider vulcans to be a paratype despite learning about them first.

To explain what I'm talking about, I will need to start at the beginning. About ten years ago, before I knew anything about alterhumanity but knowing already that I specifically felt nonhuman or animal,  I remember getting interested in Star Trek. And although I vaguely knew what protoss were at the time, I didn't look too deeply into them even though my thoughts at the time towards them were "I find them interesting. I should read more about them in the future", and you can guess what happened once I looked into them more closely and looked past their in game appearances. Although I was always interested in science fiction, I feel that getting into Star Trek made me look into the genre more closely in general. And as I was watching the movies and series, I began to develop an attachment to vulcans.  So when I first looked into Starcraft, the knowledge I pulled from to understand the historical events and telepathic abilities were from the vulcans.

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