Thread: I am an Otherkin.
I have this deep feeling of not feeling human, so I feel like I am an Otherkin. It's a deep feeling of something not feeling 'right', that there's something about your true self that doesn't seem like it would fit in the human world. It's hard to place a point on it, however.
I'd like to live a simpler, fairer life where you work on your own terms rather than work a normal office job that drains the life out of you or a dead-end job that only creates stress. If I had a job, I'd want it to be interesting. I also would like to live a life closer to nature than most people, nature seems to make me feel good.
I haven't awakened yet, but I feel drawn to the Fae and currently feel and think I'm a Fae otherkin.
I'd like to live a simpler, fairer life where you work on your own terms rather than work a normal office job that drains the life out of you or a dead-end job that only creates stress. If I had a job, I'd want it to be interesting. I also would like to live a life closer to nature than most people, nature seems to make me feel good.
I haven't awakened yet, but I feel drawn to the Fae and currently feel and think I'm a Fae otherkin.
Normally, I wouldn't be this confrontational and expose my possible ignorance, but I have no idea what otherkin is, I don't understand it, and it seems really, really stupid. That's what I really think and feel; however, I'm open to being corrected.
It just seems so dumb. Nobody fits in, that is human. So I don't really understand. It seems so dumb. So, so, dumb. That it is ineffable. (And should remain so, instead of being labeled "otherkin") Again, I appologize for my ignorance, but I can't shake the feeling that this idea is utterly absurd. I can't take it seriously.
I value personal freedom, so, by all means, be, do, say, whatever that hurts no one, including but not limited to "not being human inside" but it is entirely baffling to me and fills me with a feeling something akin to disgust.
Also, please explain it. I only understand about it what I have gathered from inference, so my understanding is certainly based in ignorance, though, as soon as I heard about it, I feared that learning more would only intensify these feelings, which, though I wish they did not, certainly exist.
It just seems so dumb. Nobody fits in, that is human. So I don't really understand. It seems so dumb. So, so, dumb. That it is ineffable. (And should remain so, instead of being labeled "otherkin") Again, I appologize for my ignorance, but I can't shake the feeling that this idea is utterly absurd. I can't take it seriously.
I value personal freedom, so, by all means, be, do, say, whatever that hurts no one, including but not limited to "not being human inside" but it is entirely baffling to me and fills me with a feeling something akin to disgust.
Also, please explain it. I only understand about it what I have gathered from inference, so my understanding is certainly based in ignorance, though, as soon as I heard about it, I feared that learning more would only intensify these feelings, which, though I wish they did not, certainly exist.
The best way to understand a group like that is to experience it first-hand, though you could always read information about Otherkin such as this and that and {insert word that comes after a 'this and that' for a third thing}.
Basically, Otherkin are people that feel deep down that they are of a different species, common ones being dragon, fae, and elf. The ones that correspond to 'normal' animals (e.g. wolf) are usually called Therians.
The process called 'awakening' is when someone realizes they're Otherkin and what type of Otherkin they are. It's usually a slow process however.
Basically, Otherkin are people that feel deep down that they are of a different species, common ones being dragon, fae, and elf. The ones that correspond to 'normal' animals (e.g. wolf) are usually called Therians.
The process called 'awakening' is when someone realizes they're Otherkin and what type of Otherkin they are. It's usually a slow process however.
I'd like to say that whatever/whoever you end up identifying as, I'll support you fully.
Sorry I don't have much more to say...I just can't seem to think tonight, or something.
Also, may I refer you to jewelfox.dreamwidth.org? Jewelfox is also an otherkin. She writes about various things, many of them interesting, some of them a bit morbid, but she has a very good blog. You might find it interesting, I hope.
Sorry I don't have much more to say...I just can't seem to think tonight, or something.
Also, may I refer you to jewelfox.dreamwidth.org? Jewelfox is also an otherkin. She writes about various things, many of them interesting, some of them a bit morbid, but she has a very good blog. You might find it interesting, I hope.
Well I looked through the resources provided. Perhaps it will take more time to digest.
I can accept a subculture. I have been member of a few sub- and countercultures myself.
But... identifying as other than human? This is still ludicrous to me. Identifying with a particular group of humans I understand. Identifying oneself as being part of a fictional race I do not.
I do not think it is "crazy," just stupid. I am sorry if this offends you. Alienation from larger cultures, groups, society/civilization at large is common, and I don't trust people who don't feel alienated to some extent. The way to deal with it in a positive progressive way, on the other hand, I feel is certainly opposed to the identification with a fundamentally separate group (species). Isolating oneself mentally from the larger group yet continuing to participate in it will have the same effect that a country's isolationism has on foreign wars that affect its own economy. Ignorance of something will not change its influence. Or so I see it.
If it makes you happy, I suppose, I am no one to object. It just seems counterproductive and frankly somewhat childish. To me.
I will keep the option of coming around open, but I cannot lie to myself about what I think and how I feel on the matter.
I can accept a subculture. I have been member of a few sub- and countercultures myself.
But... identifying as other than human? This is still ludicrous to me. Identifying with a particular group of humans I understand. Identifying oneself as being part of a fictional race I do not.
I do not think it is "crazy," just stupid. I am sorry if this offends you. Alienation from larger cultures, groups, society/civilization at large is common, and I don't trust people who don't feel alienated to some extent. The way to deal with it in a positive progressive way, on the other hand, I feel is certainly opposed to the identification with a fundamentally separate group (species). Isolating oneself mentally from the larger group yet continuing to participate in it will have the same effect that a country's isolationism has on foreign wars that affect its own economy. Ignorance of something will not change its influence. Or so I see it.
If it makes you happy, I suppose, I am no one to object. It just seems counterproductive and frankly somewhat childish. To me.
I will keep the option of coming around open, but I cannot lie to myself about what I think and how I feel on the matter.
I must be a silly ignorant dumbface fishbowl, but aren't Vampires and Fae and Annunaki and Flying Bowling Balls mythical creatures? As in, things designed by humans for myths and things? Nonexistant? Fictional things, in fiction that is fictional and not nonfiction. Humans thought them up. I, as has been established, am a silly ignorant fishbowl dumbface whom is silly and a Flying Bowling Ball, but I thought that things that people made up don't have any possible spiritual connectivity to anyone. But apparently this whole community is built around people who have decided that they feel like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. One quesion that springs to mind is "is there an accepted definition for each race"? I mean, vampires are different from one story to the next. Do people identify with a certain series' vampires/werewolves/abominations from He... Hera? What if I wrote a book where vampires all have sausages for heads and can only speak while throwing Flying Bowling Balls? Are those vampires any less acceptable than the already accepted ones? Will people identify with them now?
Many of the articles linked to give a strong impression (and by that I mean outright state) that otherkin is a very 'spiritual' thing. Which, as explanations go, is right up there with 'a wizard did it' or 'because I said so'. Saying that you feel something spiritually comes to its first problem when you realize that spirits, like fae or dragons, do not actually exist. There are brains, that's where you think things and feel things. Substituting 'spirits' for 'brains' in those articles makes otherkin easily identifiable and explainable as a mental... um... thing. I don't want to say 'disorder', because that puts it alongside Depression or Mania. Or Corelis. Or Alberto. Even then, it seems like tacking an identifiable and comforting name onto something only vaguely related. Then again, who wants to start a community of people who have Dislikes Sunlight and Likes To Suck Blood Disorder (DSLTSBD)?
But what do I know, I'm just a fishbowl dumbhead ignorant silly. I am curious about the whole accepted definition thing, though. What's going on there?
Many of the articles linked to give a strong impression (and by that I mean outright state) that otherkin is a very 'spiritual' thing. Which, as explanations go, is right up there with 'a wizard did it' or 'because I said so'. Saying that you feel something spiritually comes to its first problem when you realize that spirits, like fae or dragons, do not actually exist. There are brains, that's where you think things and feel things. Substituting 'spirits' for 'brains' in those articles makes otherkin easily identifiable and explainable as a mental... um... thing. I don't want to say 'disorder', because that puts it alongside Depression or Mania. Or Corelis. Or Alberto. Even then, it seems like tacking an identifiable and comforting name onto something only vaguely related. Then again, who wants to start a community of people who have Dislikes Sunlight and Likes To Suck Blood Disorder (DSLTSBD)?
But what do I know, I'm just a fishbowl dumbhead ignorant silly. I am curious about the whole accepted definition thing, though. What's going on there?
Yeah, you are definitely a silly. Alongside Mania. Or Ares. Or SAPPHIROS . I think the best way to learn about Otherkin is to explore the people themselves. As far as I know, they're quite friendly.
And I'm pretty sure that there are psi-vampires as well, those just feed with energy.
And I'm pretty sure that there are psi-vampires as well, those just feed with energy.
You know, they always say bipolar disorder is Mania and Depression, but I think it's really Mania and Corelis. Or DeNovo and ScintillaTinge. Actually, those aren't really antipodes so much as they are just moderators.
Don't you count as one of those people? As an Otherkin? Or are you really a Flying Bowling Ball. I've got my eye on you. Those Bowling Balls are tricky.
Psi-vampires!? That is the most utterly amazing and yet really ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And by "I've ever heard", I am of course discounting anything Mania ever said. Because of Mania.
Don't you count as one of those people? As an Otherkin? Or are you really a Flying Bowling Ball. I've got my eye on you. Those Bowling Balls are tricky.
Psi-vampires!? That is the most utterly amazing and yet really ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And by "I've ever heard", I am of course discounting anything Mania ever said. Because of Mania.