forcepirate: Don’t let people harass you over your kin types for any reason. It literally does not affect them in any way. I don’t care…

is it normal to have kinfeels that you dont notice over the months/years, yet suddenly when seeing the actual source material it hits so hard that you end up extremely freaked out and depressed over what happened and you cant stop crying and getting so painfully emotional over sudden flashbacks of memories, knowing that what youve felt all along finally has meaning, and having this all happen within 48 hours? can i still say im them?

I can’t tell you whether you’re kin or not, but what you describe is pretty much what happened to my fiancee when she first saw…

tbh i cant tell if im fictionkin or copinglink. i dont get memories or homesickness but i get really strong emotions n stuff. but after reading about fictionkin (i knew what otherkin was so i tried seeing if there was a “fictional character eqivilant”) i thought “wow thats way more involved than i am” in that i dont really get memories and i dont really think it’s spiritual. n with all the c’link stuff going around i was like “i guess that makes sense” but i started evaluating it and well (1/2)

(2/2) well i’m starting to think that maybe i was fictionkin all along anyway, and i’m just dwelling too much on things. im not good…

For me, i have primary (kintypes i am currently shifting into pretty often), secondary (kintypes i still feel strongly but i’m not experiencing shifts at the moment), and tertiary (kintypes that i still feel but i haven’t had a shift in a while). Then I have synpaths/hearttypes and a questioning list as well. -Organization anon

Very interesting! It makes me wonder how often do you have to update your lists? I’m so lazy I haven’t even updated m soulbond list…

i guess the main thing is that it kind of hurts, here i am thinking that i’ve found a really good and informative blog about something that plays a pretty big role in my life, basically giving the vibe that because i have tiers of kintypes, that i’m less valid than those who dont. and man, it is really disappointing

I never said you were less valid. Also, I despise ‘validity’ as a concept. The original question I was asked was ‘ When looking at someone’s…

in a sense, it is. though there’s also, for me, levels of how connected i feel to the kintype. like facts are facts and i know that im kin with specific characters because i have the memories.. but sometimes i dont want to be or i dont feel like i’ve retained much of my old selves/self whatever (grammer is confusing) in this life. it’s really hard to explain because not everyone who has kintypes will feel this way but for some of us, not all kintypes are equal, and we are valid

And that’s a fair way to feel, anon, and a fair way to categorize things for yourself. Like I said, I don’t actually have anything…

as someone who has “primary/secondary” kintypes, for me it’s like… sometimes i’m not sure if i’m kin with a character or not. or sometimes i have less memories and it makes me unsure. this is what define primary/secondary for me: how close i am to figuring out beyond any sort of doubt whether or not i am kin with a character

This makes sense to me but tells me that only your primary kintypes are your actual confirmed kintypes and everything else is just things that…

Is it bad to sort of not like being fictionkin/otherkin, and rather just be a polytherian? I don’t really like the culture and stuff around fictionkin/otherkin, especially on tumblr. Plus, therian seems easier to explain (just being therian, because I am a polytherian), and it sucks more because I have a psychological kintype. Is this bad? Any advice?

I can’t really blame you for not wanting to associate with the community and culture of otherkin/fictionkin, anon. However, what I can say is what…

Is it weird to look at reader insert fanfic of you x a relative of yours in a past life? As in, not incest and viewing it from your past life’s perspective, but acknowledging that this is a completely different life and viewing it from that perspective. What about you x a different canon? Both my friend and I were curious about the morals around this.

I am really not the person to ask the perspective of this, anon, but I will give it a shot, with the caveat that I…

who-is-page: who-is-page: haibakun: i hope otherkin realise they’re taking a part of an actual religion their “spirit animal” or, u know, the “cultural appropriation” everyone…

Why is is the same people who hate self-dxers are often the first to call ‘kin beliefs a mental illness? “Fictionkin” is not an illness in the DSM. It consequently isn’t even diagnosable as an illness by a trained medical professional, let alone someone on the internet.

It may be because their  worldview centers around not only attaching medical diagnoses to beliefs and personality traits, but receiving ‘permission’ for these beliefs and traits…

i think i may be fictionhearted but i’m not entirely sure? especially because the character i think i am fictionheart/ed (?) with is my own OC… i have a really deep connection to him (that isn’t romantic or sexual or anything) and i have a rlly strong desire to be him.. also i’m a maladaptive daydreamer and this OC is my ‘idealised self’. i have avpd and saw that self-deserting behaviour is common, which i do, and i sort of feel like i’m constantly trying to ‘role play’ almost as my OC (1)

(2) and just completely ignore my actual self.. so do you think i’m fictionhearted ?.. I can’t comment on your mental illnesses/symptoms. However, disregarding them,…

anxiousflurries: hany0u: jeshire-katt: When people say “Not a kintype, literally me” it pains me so hard like a kintype is literally you, it is your identity…

“partially as” anon: what is a hearttype? I’ve never heard that before. With me it’s a persistent feeling that I’m nonhuman (currently going with fey but not 100% sold) that’s been around for a long time, but it comes and goes so I don’t really relate to a lot of people who say that they feel like they’re currently not human and they’re really a fairy wandering around in the human world. I am human, and the part that feels nonhuman is just a part of me, I guess. It’s not always important

Hearttype is to fictionhearted/otherhearted as kintype is to fictionkin/otherkin. As for the rest of your ask, that sounds like an interesting experience, anon. I’m not…

Not fictionkin related, but is there a word for feeling like a /part/ of you is something, but not necessarily the whole of you? I know otherhearted is a thing, but that’s always defined as identifying with something, not as, whereas this is more identifying partially as something, but not wholly? IDK I might just be imagining it but I would kind of like to know

Hearttype might cover it? Like maybe call it a minor hearttype or partial hearttype? Or synpath if you’re just relating to a part of their…

hany0u: jeshire-katt: When people say “Not a kintype, literally me” it pains me so hard like a kintype is literally you, it is your identity in…

I just saw a post saying I couldn’t have a certain kintype unless I had the exact same disability they had because I wouldn’t understand their experience. The thing is that the character is a CAT and I very obviously don’t experience being a cat right now either :/ the logic in those types of posts seems faulty

The logic in those posts is completely non-existent, anon, and you can feel free to ignore them. The very basis of being kin is about…