what’s your stance on self diagnosis?
My stance is it has absolutely nothing to do with being otherkin/fictionkin.
When someone tells me that they’re ill, I generally believe them. This goes for anything anyone tells me on the internet. Unless I think someone has a reason to lie to me, or I have strong evidence that they’re mistaken (and a reason to care that they’re wrong) I just go ahead and believe them.
That said, I have my own personal issues regarding illness, both mental and physical that I’m still working through. My family was extremely anti-medical establishment, and violently anti-psychiatry due to my father’s paranoia. This environment had an impact on me, and I am still disentangling my own adult views on the matter from my father’s shelf of untested herbal supplements and homeopathic remedies.
