Some kin have been made to feel like their kin beliefs are a direct result of their mental illness. They feel that their belief that they are a fictional character can not be externally real, and rather must be a result of their internal neurology/brain chemistry. Some kin do not believe this, but say they do, or even tell themselves that they do, in order to validate themselves with doctors, parents, partners etc, and/or to feel in control of their internal experience.
To those kin, I say. I believe you. I believe that you are the person you say you are. And even if you don’t believe it, or can’t accept that you believe it, because you are mentally ill, I still believe you. I believe that your kin identity is real, and has validity and reality externally, outside yourself. I believe that you are you in a way that is meaningful to the world at large. You do not need to justify yourself to me, because I believe you.
So you’re basically encouraging someone’s mental illness and subsequent delusions and dissociation just because you’re scared of being ableist or something along those lines? Pathetic.
Mentally ill kin who chose to interact with the kin community are already ‘encouraging’ their own belief. Its not on me to judge them for that.
No, I mean by someone who is not otherkin but is mentally ill that becomes an otherkin.
I’m confused at what you are saying. Are you saying that once someone is diagnosed with a mental illness they lack the agency to decide if they believe they are otherkin? Would you say someone who is mentally ill can not decide they believe in god?
Or are you talking about a person who one day ‘decides’ to ‘become’ otherkin in order to serve a goal? You are right that person is not really kin. But thats a separate issue from mental illness.
