Otherkin

[Liriena]

I'm a furry [...] will act like a puppy [...] when I'm overwhelmingly happy.

Why do you keep giving me reasons to like you?

[Washington Resistance Army]

At the best of times it's silly.

[Lowell Leber]

I must respectfully suggest that if you believed that you lived in the fantasy realms you read about that you would be delusional.

If something doesn't actually negatively impact you or those around you it is ridiculous to describe it as a mental illness. It's a different way of thinking; that's it.

No...it is not living in reality. Why must everyone try and be a special little snowflake? EDIT: It negatively impacts me because people who subscribe to these delusions are less likely to be productive citizens and have families with children. Thus indirectly accelerating the decline of Western Civilization.

[Rikatan]

If something doesn't actually negatively impact you or those around you it is ridiculous to describe it as a mental illness. It's a different way of thinking; that's it.

No...it is not living in reality. Why must everyone try and be a special little snowflake? EDIT: It negatively impacts me because people who subscribe to these delusions are less likely to be productive citizens and have families with children. Thus indirectly accelerating the decline of Western Civilization.

No offense, but I can like whatever I want and believe in whatever I want. If I want to believe in Christianity or in another Abrahamic religion, I can do that. If I want to believe that I, like I-don't-know-what Native American tribe, am descended from a wolf or some other animal, I can do that. It's not productive, it's not helpful to society, but it probably is fun. I can't really empathize with people that have such beliefs, but I sure know that they wouldn't have them if they wouldn't like to.

And I'm also sure that not everyone with a belief different than the norm is 'trying to be a special snowflake'. If you have a belief it doesn't instantly mean you have it for the show (although you obviously can have one only for the show).

[Threlizdun]

I'm a furry [...] will act like a puppy [...] when I'm overwhelmingly happy.

Why do you keep giving me reasons to like you?

Because I'm the Queen of France.

If something doesn't actually negatively impact you or those around you it is ridiculous to describe it as a mental illness. It's a different way of thinking; that's it.

No...it is not living in reality. Why must everyone try and be a special little snowflake? EDIT: It negatively impacts me because people who subscribe to these delusions are less likely to be productive citizens and have families with children. Thus indirectly accelerating the decline of Western Civilization.

All of us escape reality at some time or another. We daydream, play games, or watch movies. It's healthy to do every once in a while. The fact that it makes us happy actually makes us more productive. Sad and bored people do not make society run smoothly.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Live and let live. I can't profess to fully understand such beliefs but then again a whole bunch of people don't understand me. There's no need to be a douchecanoe about it.

[Geilinor]

Live and let live. I can't profess to fully understand such beliefs but then again a whole bunch of people don't understand me. There's no need to be a douchecanoe about it.

My position exactly.

[Liberty and Linguistics]

Live and let live. I can't profess to fully understand such beliefs but then again a whole bunch of people don't understand me. There's no need to be a douchecanoe about it.

Douchecanoe? That's going in the sig.

[Fremskrittspartiet]

Otherkin is v often something peeps with some kind of personality disorder use to cope. Also, I could literally not care any less about wheter or not people identify as human or otherkin. Doesn't affect me, so I don't care.

[Skrovishte]

"Identities," are ultimately self-chosen labels, and I don't care in the slightest about which labels people choose to attribute to themselves. Whether someone else thinks that a certain identity is "invalid," or "valid," does not matter.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Otherkin is v often something peeps with some kind of personality disorder use to cope. Also, I could literally not care any less about wheter or not people identify as human or otherkin. Doesn't affect me, so I don't care.

Everyone has a personality disorder if you listen to internet cod-psychology.

[Grenartia]

We have all the context we need when botherkin directly compare their bullshit to our struggles. Which only drags us down.

*** Warned for trolling/malicious nicknaming ***

I reckon that most otherkins have a few screws loose. Some furries want to fuck animals, but otherkin want to be animals...

Christ...

*** Warned for trolling ***

Gentleposters, let me be clear: if the point of all this trolling, malicious nicknaming, et cetera is to make this thread become irretrievably shat-upon to the point of locking, it will not work. What WILL happen is that we will move from warnings for rulebreakers, to bannings, as appropriate.

Knock it off. If you can't be civil about it, go play elsewhere.

Yeah, I had that coming. Warning heeded.

[The Serbian Empire]

Otherkin is v often something peeps with some kind of personality disorder use to cope. Also, I could literally not care any less about wheter or not people identify as human or otherkin. Doesn't affect me, so I don't care.

Everyone has a personality disorder if you listen to internet cod-psychology.

With some of us having many although most of mine can be tied to neurological problems such as cranial nerve disorder with the trigeminal nerve or high functioning autism, a neuropsychological condition.

[Grenartia]

At the best of times it's silly.

At the worst, it directly negatively impacts my community's struggle for equal rights.

If something doesn't actually negatively impact you or those around you it is ridiculous to describe it as a mental illness. It's a different way of thinking; that's it.

No...it is not living in reality. Why must everyone try and be a special little snowflake? EDIT: It negatively impacts me because people who subscribe to these delusions are less likely to be productive citizens and have families with children. Thus indirectly accelerating the decline of Western Civilization.

To be fair, having children doesn't actually contribute to the decline of Western Civilization.

[Rikatan]

At the best of times it's silly.

At the worst, it directly negatively impacts my community's struggle for equal rights.

So do half the things in the world. I'd love to ban religion in the name of human rights. Oh wait. See what's going on there?

I am not denying that this is happening, but it's literally useless for you to say it: such a stereotype is not a reason for otherkin people to be considered worse than they actually are (which is basically zero).

[Fremskrittspartiet]

Otherkin is v often something peeps with some kind of personality disorder use to cope. Also, I could literally not care any less about wheter or not people identify as human or otherkin. Doesn't affect me, so I don't care.

Everyone has a personality disorder if you listen to internet cod-psychology.

luckily, internet cod-psychology isn't the most used form for psychology irl.

[Grenartia]

At the worst, it directly negatively impacts my community's struggle for equal rights.

So do half the things in the world. I'd love to ban religion in the name of human rights. Oh wait. See what's going on there?

I am not denying that this is happening, but it's literally useless for you to say it: such a stereotype is not a reason for otherkin people to be considered worse than they actually are (which is basically zero).

Considering the entire concept was created as a mockery of my community's struggles, its different from the example you gave, where religion has been hijacked.

[Aelex]

Because I'm the Queen of France.

Be careful, the 14 Juillet is in less than a week.

All of us escape reality at some time or another. We daydream, play games, or watch movies. It's healthy to do every once in a while. The fact that it makes us happy actually makes us more productive. Sad and bored people do not make society run smoothly.

Funny how you're needed to defend the very principe of imagination. It's not like it's basically the very thing which allowed us to graduate from simple monkey to sapient being able to progress both culturally and technologically speaking...

[The Grey Wolf]

Meh, they're nerds with too much time on their hands.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Everyone has a personality disorder if you listen to internet cod-psychology.

luckily, internet cod-psychology isn't the most used form for psychology irl.

That is just as well, otherwise you might have something faintly resembling a point.

[Olivaero]

So do half the things in the world. I'd love to ban religion in the name of human rights. Oh wait. See what's going on there?

I am not denying that this is happening, but it's literally useless for you to say it: such a stereotype is not a reason for otherkin people to be considered worse than they actually are (which is basically zero).

Considering the entire concept was created as a mockery of my community's struggles, its different from the example you gave, where religion has been hijacked.

I thought Otherkin were created because some LotR fans seriously thought they were elves on a spiritual level...

[Fremskrittspartiet]

luckily, internet cod-psychology isn't the most used form for psychology irl.

That is just as well, otherwise you might have something faintly resembling a point.

sometimes i try

[Dumb Ideologies]

That is just as well, otherwise you might have something faintly resembling a point.

sometimes i try

Today wasn't one of those occasions.

[Ethel mermania]

So do half the things in the world. I'd love to ban religion in the name of human rights. Oh wait. See what's going on there?

I am not denying that this is happening, but it's literally useless for you to say it: such a stereotype is not a reason for otherkin people to be considered worse than they actually are (which is basically zero).

Considering the entire concept was created as a mockery of my community's struggles, its different from the example you gave, where religion has been hijacked.

No one I have met rl, who played otherkin ever did it in the slightest relation to trans. The folks who I know who do it would compare it to cosplay, more than anything else.

[Rikatan]

So do half the things in the world. I'd love to ban religion in the name of human rights. Oh wait. See what's going on there?

I am not denying that this is happening, but it's literally useless for you to say it: such a stereotype is not a reason for otherkin people to be considered worse than they actually are (which is basically zero).

Considering the entire concept was created as a mockery of my community's struggles, its different from the example you gave, where religion has been hijacked.

I doubt people even had any idea that the transgender community existed back when they began worshipping Native American religions in America (many of which are based on such a belief) or when stories about werewolves started appearing in Europe. What I understand from your post is basically 'oh no Illuminati' to me.
For thousands of years, people have thought 'oh, I have something in common with [object/animal]' and/or 'I wonder what it would be like to be [object/animal]' intentionally to sabotage you in the future. No other reason.