People aren’t saying their gender is literally cat, nounself pronouns can be inspired by an identity but they aren’t implying that someone’s actual /gender/ is their kin. They’re just NB pronouns that make certain people feel the most comfortable.

I understand that is the case at least for some, and honestly I am all for self expression.

My problems are outsiders thinking nounself pronouns are a kin thing, especially transgender outsiders who think that kin are making fun of them. This I’ll admit is an education problem, rather than an inherent problem.

My other problem is slightly more personal, honestly. 

Its that nounself pronouns are really bad for people (like me) who have memory issues. I can’t remember people’s names most of the time, in real life, and I only remember people’s screen names when they’re right there for me.  

I default to calling people ‘they’ on the internet, because otherwise I’d have to look up whether they’re male/female/nobinary/whatever, pretty much every time I refer to them, and that’s only including he/she/they/xe. 

Trying to assign a singular nounself pronoun to everyone I know would kill me and I’d probably just stop using prounouns all together and say ‘name’ and ‘that person’ instead.

Not to mention nounself pronouns feel very clunky and jerky inserted into language, but I guess whether they’re poetic or not isn’t the debate.