Gimme that Blood

I was recently watching various programs about "Real Life Vampires," and how they try to differentiate themselves from those that we are familiar with in the movies and in books. Many of them just blather on about how they are not human, yet comparatively try to justify themselves by arguing that humans have evolved from cavemen, so why can't they just be that next step in evolution. Well basically, because as you stated before you are NOT human. So then, to any vampires out there, what are you then? Are you an evolved human? Are you another species? Are you the undead? And to the cliches of what we would associate with vampires, why is it that you want to distance yourselves from it, but can only justify your existence through embracing those cliches. What is the point? You think of yourself as a vampire, ok fine, to each their own. Why then, would you come out to the world about it? Would that not prompt those curious enough to disprove your claims to quarantine you and preform experiments on you? Ok, maybe I have seen to many movies. The question still remains, what makes you...as one would say a Vampire? The fact that you relate to the lifestyle, or the fact that you, don't need, but only drink blood? You may certainly have various uncanny gifts, but that doesn't make you a vampire. If your only way of laying claim to being a "Vampire" is to rattle off traits that we are familiar with as told by movie makers and authors, then I would suggest that you rethink your claims and maybe be a bit more creative in your fabricated life style. Put down the Anne Rice books and pick up a pen, and get to work on writing a new story for yourself.