i just don’t….
I’m sorry but I don’t agree with kin types. No amount of research or talking to those who identify as kin makes any sense to me. I had someone explain it was like spirit animals. I’m sorry, what you’re describing does not sound like a spirit animal. And I find that horribly offensive. To me, it’s mocking spirit animals. As someone who is both bisexual and trans, I can understand a whole lot of shit. But this. I just….don’t. It sounds like DID. My friend has DID. I had her read a number of people’s tales of their feelings. She said it sounds a lot like what she goes through every day. I have a few friends going into the psych field and have graduated who’ve said the same thing.
I’m just saying.
Hi there. I’m wondering who explained otherkin to you, because its not really a lot like either spirit animals or DID. An otherkin doesn’t have multiple personalities, and their kintype isn’t separate from them, its who they are. Basically a part of their internal identity.
Ok, but from what I’ve seen, most people believe they are those things. They are an actual fox. They are a dragon. They are Steven from SU and that’s mental illness. You’re not a fox. You’re not a cartoon.
I’ve had a number of people all explain it differently and those were the running threads. It’s kinda like a spirit animal. And having a number of people who are in the medical field tell me it reads like DID or some other dissociation and having someone who is DID read a lot of these reports of being otherkin and saying they sound like her head. It’s just kinda alarming. I’ve read a number of people saying that they are different parts of themselves.
When people say they ‘are’ those things, they don’t mean in a delusional way, they mean in an internal way. We all know that we’re not *physically* a fox, or steven universe, and that we were born on this earth, etc, etc. Its simply an internal belief system, the same as believing really strongly that, for instance, your astrological sign actually means something, or believing that you’re one of god’s chosen people.
I am curious what people in the medical field are reading what blogs, because there is a difference between fictionkin and fictives. Fictives are DID alters, or other multiple headmates that ARE separate from the original person. Fictionkin are not that.
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