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Since discovering I’m kin with these two characters, I’ve been using that cope with my mental illnesses but it’s making me doubt whether it’s real or not. It feels very real, but I don’t want to be a fake because I know copingkin is different. Do other mentally ill kin do this? Use their kin to cope after finding out they’re kin? Thanks.

Mentally ill and traumatized kin often use their knowledge of their kintypes to help them cope with their illness and stress, anon. Doing so does…

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do you think it’s possible for a fickin to be a mixture between reincarnated, and psychological/coping? I feel most of mine were past lives and i have memories for a good few of them, but they still, at least sort of, affect me psychologically/help me cope with mental illness by giving me more of a sense of self and something to relate to, even if i didn’t choose them. do you think that’s possible?

Many, many reincarnated/spiritual kin rely on aspects of their kinself for comfort and strength. Drawing on your identity as kin to help you cope with…

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Thank you for your reply, I understand and it’s a good point but I think that while classifications are good to make things clear dividing a small community with close experiences in two against the wishes of some of them is not ideal. I also think the otherkin community wants only people who believe it’s an spiritual thing lately, I mean between coping kin and people who believe being kin is psychological or anything not spiritual there isn’t such a big diference and both tend to be excluded.

I think its important to share space- but I also think its important to have dedicated spaces to both. We have similar experiences, and a…

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I believe healthy multiplicity is real and your anon is missing the point, psychology is supposed to explain the workings of the mind not own them and only allow for their worldview to exist, so please don’t assume I’m one of those anons, but I think that what people like the anon are doing to you reminds me of what otherkin like you do to other kin, you define who can be part of the community by your views, like being against coping kin, according to my worldview as kin that is possible.

Sorry this took me longer to get to! You have a point! The difference is that I absolutely believe that copingkin exist as a phenomenon…

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psychological, i don’t use this to cope with anything, i don’t understand how that works honestly. unless using this knowledge as a way to accept, enjoy or to better certain aspects of myself counts? i don’t think it does… isn’t that why someone learns almost anything about themselves :’)

I assume you’re the anon from this post. Thanks for letting me know. Honestly, I think all fictionkin, spiritual and psychological, use the knowledge of their…

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i don’t reject the possibility of being [x] in the past, but it’s not terribly important to me. i do believe in multiverses but i’m the sort who thinks that entails i was, will be or am now (somewhere else) everybody who has been or will be- exponentially more than the two types i identify as. yeah, i don’t pay too much attention to it. then again, i also remember a thing or two, so… hm… these questions are helpful to me, too

Fascinating thoughts. Can I ask if you identify as psychological kin, or copingkin, or a mix? Here are the questions anon is referring to. I’d…

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for me it has nothing to do with coping, it’s a personality/brain(?) thing. wasn’t a decision so much as something i just noticed after a bit & needed to think on a little more. i know that i am who i am because i simply do. though i don’t act anything like i used to, “my insides are the same”- that’s the only way i can think to word it, it’s complicated. honestly, i’ve never thought so much about how to answer those questions outside my social circle. i’ll sort out my thoughts and try later.

Thank you for taking the time to answer 🙂 I’d be delighted to hear any more you come up with, and any anyone else does.…

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