Kin and Mental Illness

Okay, you know what, this is getting ridiculous.

I am not trying to keep anybody ‘out’ of the kin community. Especially not people with mental illnesses.

This is not something I share very often, because it is personal, and in my opinion, irrelevant to my writing here.

I have bipolar disorder. Specifically Bipolar 2. I am professionally diagnosed. Currently untreated.

Being fictionkin is not something that is caused by mental illness. Saying that being fictionkin is caused by mental illness is something that many trolls and bullies over the years have said in an attempt to invalidate my experiences, and the experiences of many other otherkin and fictionkin.

Saying being kin is caused by mental illness is a tactic that is used to discredit and invalidate kin experience.

Absolutely kin can have mental illnesses, and problems, and use their kin identities to cope or deal with those feelings in times of crises.

But being kin does not cause mental illness, and mental illness does not cause being kin

Get it through your thick fucking skulls.