Feeling as if born the wrong species

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As a child I felt so different that I thought I was an animal. But there wasn't a specific animal that I thought I was. I don't feel like that any more because now I know that there are other people who are similar to me. But I still relate closely to animals.

When I was a kid I thought everyone else were aliens and that I was the only human.

This is exactly how I feel! I feel like I am supposed to be a fox. Ever since I could talk I would ask myself, wheres my tail, why are my ears on the side of my head? I've caught myself yelping, when in pain, barking at cars etc. I don't feel comfortable in my own skin and i'm not happy in my human body.

I feel a bit alien sometimes, but it doesn't really bother me that much. Really I know that I am a human, but I don't really think I have a "human" mind... I just see mans aggressive behavior, and how we are destroying the world and nature and I think to myself "why am I like these people?"

Personally I wish I was an alien. Because its always better being different and interesting than normal and boring!

I've always felt that way. Though for a few years early on it was a reptilian/amphibious thing that could fly, which for all intents and purposes was a dragon. Now it's a winged puma.

I've felt like this for a long time. 'Human' just doesn't seem to describe me. I don't have the same set of behaviors and tendencies as everyone else. That said, I can't quite explain what I feel I should be.

It would be nice to have a private genetics lab and a couple centuries worth of research. I could get myself out of this body, and into something that feels more like 'me'.

Not so much "wrong species," but I'd be somewhat overjoyed if a space ship came down to "recover" me.

Could it be that the word some of you are looking for is "Otherkin" ?

There's a community of people on the internet who feel like animals. Wolves, cats, dragons, elves, whatever. Some of them are convinced they actually have the soul of that animal, which, for whatever reason, was born into a human body (and might return to its original form after death), so it gets a bit into religious-ish beliefs.
Some of these people actually feel "phantom limbs", i.e. they feel like they have a tail. Or when they look into a mirror they're sort of surprised to see no fangs and furr. Some of them actually have crushes on dragons (or whatever) and not so much on humans.

i am the right species with imposters of the wrong species crowding my arena of life

I am a cat trapped in a human body, not a furry, nor an otherkin, or whatever that stuff is.

Just a cat-type Aspie.