Otherkin stuff.

spiralthorns:

Things that make you otherkin:

• Remembering a past life where you literally *were* a non-human being.
• Just intuiting that you’ve been non-human before and that it was a better fit for you than humanity.
• Believing that your soul is somehow not human even though it is incarnated in a human body.
• Believing your mind functions much more like that of a non-human than like that of a human.
• Just knowing you are not human inside, even if you don’t know why yet.
• Some argue that claiming a non-human identity in order to gain a sense of purpose/a stable sense of self/any other important thing that a mental disorder has taken from you also makes you otherkin. I don’t know enough about this to comment. 

Things that don’t make you otherkin:

• Relating to a character on TV. Writers deliberately create relate-able characters so that audiences will like watching their shows. Being able to relate to someone does not make you that person.
• Getting feels about a character.
• Identifying with something/someone but not as them.
• Seeing someone in fiction as a role-model.
• Occasionally being able to vividly imagine yourself as a character you really like and jumping to the conclusion that you must literally be that character.
• Loving animals.
• Feeling really close to/interested in a specific non-human creature. This could make you other-hearted but not otherkin.
• Feeling “feral” and liking your steak rare. 
• Having violent outbursts. Suddenly losing control of your anger does not mean you are transforming into a wolf/secretly some kind of carnivorous otherkin. It might just mean you need help emotionally regulating, and you need to take that seriously.
• Having a magical/Paganistic/nature-based spirituality. Earth-based religions were created by humans for humans and center around the human experience. Feeling like a Pagan spiritual path “chose you” or like you have a deep/strong connection to magic does not make you non-human.
• Being psychic, having strong intuition, or even having some magical abilities. 
• Having strange, confusing dreams that don’t have anything to do with being non-human/experiencing another world or reality/anything even close to being otherkin.

There are probably exceptions.