just because we haven’t worked out everything about the brain doesn’t mean that we know nothing. also @ the other anon, i’m aware of the ableism in the psychiatric field, but that doesn’t make all psychiatry completely incorrect. also note that modern psychology is based on decades of research and studies. while we have hundreds of books and reports on the topic, what do you have? a couple of teenagers on the internet claiming to know better than people who have spent years studying?

I’m 30, anon. And I’ve been consciously multiple for half my lifetime. Most of the people in the multiplicity communities I’ve been a part of…

i’m speaking as someone currently studying psychology at university. the literal definition of a system is someone whose personality didn’t integrate. please actually look this up, this is a known fact. if your personality is integrated you’re not multiple. if you’re going to claim to be multiple people with an integrated personality, can you at least not steal our terms.

*facepalm* Wow, anon, the point and you miss again! 1) obviously a psychology textbook would define mlultiplicty through the lens of disorder. They’re not going…

not believing me about being diagnosed just because you disagree with me is childish. also there’s literally no-non DID/OSDD-1 basis for natural multiples to exist unless they’re not actually dissociative, and therefore not a system. imitative DID is where someone with an unstable personality (usually someone with BPD believes their facets are alters because they feel like different people.) takes on the social role of someone with DID and claims to be multiple, despite being a singlet.

no-non DID/OSDD-1 basis for natural multiples  Whoops, you missed the point again, anon! Natural multiples exist, get this, outside of the psychiatric purview.  Natural multiples…

just because a source stretches back more than a decade doesn’t mean it’s true. you could say exactly the same thing about vaccines causing autism. again, you’re completely ignoring what i’m saying here. multiplicity and being a system are symptoms of DID and OSDD-1 exclusively. why are you taking terms from a disorder and using them to describe something completely different.

And you are not listening to me. I am a part of a multiple system. We do not have DID or trauma. Why are you…

how on earth is a livejournal supposed to be an official source? you have no evidence to back up your claims. all of the links on the site have been discredited multiple times. people claiming to be multiple without having the additional symptoms of an unintegrated personality clearly have no understanding of what a system is. a system is a medical term for all dissociated parts of a person with DID or OSDD-1.

The point is over here <- and you are all the waaaaay over there —–> In other words, you have missed the point. how on…

multiplicity only happens when a person has undergone trauma, and is not the natural state of the mind. that is, by definition, a disorder. if nothing happened to make a personality not integrate, it integrates. you literally cannot be a multiple if you have an integrated personality because the term implies that your personality isn’t integrated.

The trauma based model pushed by the psychological institution is not the only cause of multiplicity. Non-trauma systems exist, and have existed for years, and…

as someone whos fictionkin, i can sort of see why people dislike it when people tag their art as kin… i asked an artist who dislikes it and they way they described it was that they put their heart and soul into their art, and to see someone claim its *their* heart and soul feels like its being claimed as their own. to me it sort of sounded similar to when people who are kin arent comfortable seeing doubles of themselves. and i sympathize with that feeling… as long as its not because (1)

of a reason like ‘fuck otherkin i dont want them on my post’ it doesnt seem rude to me? sure, it sucks because i wanna…

You consider otherkin a spirituality? I haven’t seen people describe it as such, but regardless… Yes, I find all irrational things that are not based on empirical evidence absurd, which absolutely includes religion as well as people who think they’re a feathered dragon. However, for what it’s worth, otherkin isn’t as bad as religion by any stretch of the imagination. They’re just similarly silly.

Most legitimate otherkin and fictonkin consider it a spirituality. It started as a spiritual idea/movement. Everything else has grown/deviated from there. Those kin who do…

“Those of you who think our community is stupid, please look deeper before you pass judgement.” If you believe you are an animal, a dragon or a fictional character… that is absurd. And that’s okay, there’s a lot of people who believe in God with a similar glaring lack of empirical evidence. Just don’t expect people to respect it because, again, it’s utterly absurd.

Well, at least you’re painting all spiritual people with the same brush. Asshole. Just more evidence that the people who find kin absurd are the…

Hello, You don’t know me. but i have come to apologize. I watch Amazingathiest, and i used to be an anti-otherkin. i have said mean things to people, and have gotten death threats in return. a vicious cycle if you will. Tonight i stumbled on a post, on an other-kin page, denouncing otherkin who were being viciously aggressive/defensive and attacking the trolls back. Long story short…well. sorry for being an anonymous dick. Doesn’t seem like most of you “other-kin” are that bad after all. peace

Thank you for your honesty and your apology. I truly believe that if people were to look deeper at the community and engage in open…

I wish that non-kin coming into this community would educate themselves instead of taking everything written by trolls and inexperienced newbies  as what all kin…

borderline-tex: I’m curious about something. Like/reblog this post if you’re otherkin and you’re 25 years old or older. Because 25+ otherkin exist and we’re amazing…