Kin and Coping. Its Simple.
If you are fictionkin and you are mentally ill, it is natural to fall back on your kin identity as a method of coping with your depression/anxiety/etc.
However
Being mentally ill and taking on the identity of a fictional character purely as a method of coping with your illness does not then make you fictionkin.
Its a totally okay and fine and valid thing to do to help yourself. But it does not make you fictionkin. The word for that would be fiction-hearted.
Being fictionkin is something that you either are or you are not. It is not an identity that you can choose or deliberately cultivate for any reason. It is something that was always in you that you discover about yourself.
Being fictionkin is not a choice.
Mentally ill fictionkin can rely on their kin identities for support, but you can not ‘become’ fictionkin to cope with mental illness.
lmao this is bullshit so youre telling me even if someone 100% believes they are a character, just because they use it as a coping mechanism, theyre automatically not fictionkin? fuck offff
No, that’s not at all what I’m saying.
I’m saying its perfectly fine to use the fact that you are fictionkin to cope with your difficulties.
You just can’t *decide* to be fictionkin *as a way to cope with your difficulties*.
Do you see what I’m saying? One is relying on a sincere belief in a time of crisis, the other is making things up to feel better about yourself.
I feel personally that if you believe your identity is caused primarily by mental illness, another label other than fictionkin probably suits you better.
does it Really Matter if people who use it to cope call themselves fictionkin. or are we just feeling uncomfy sharing a space with ppl with personality disorders that make fickins a good coping mechanism to help with identity issues or delusional mentally ill people or other stigmatized mental illnesses. yea just put them in some tiny category with no community and no presence whatsoever
Gee I Sure Love The Needless Gatekeeping Of Kin ‘Communities’ To Keep Out People With Those Scary Mental Illnesses
Okay, you know what, this is getting ridiculous.
I am not trying to keep anybody out. 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.
